| Home page To receive this publication via e-mail, click here. THE NORTH KOREA REPORT: JULY 9, 2003 Fifty years ago this week, the Korea War was suspended by the 1953 Armistice, ensuring that South Korea would be free. Sadly it also ensured that millions of Koreans would be trapped in a Stalinist hell on earth until this very day. Our statement on why North Korea must be liberated can be found here. TOP STORY: NORTH KOREA MAY BE DEVELOPING MISSILE WARHEADS U.S. AND SOUTH KOREAN INTELLIGENCE REPORTS THAT STALINISTS ARE REPROCESSING PLUTONIUM AND CONDUCTING NUCLEAR-RELATED TESTS American intelligence satellites have come across a facility in Youngdoktong that �may or may not� (CNN) be a facility for testing nuclear weapons, particularly missile warheads. Word of North Korea�s possible plans for nuclear warheads were �met with scepticism (UK sp) by officials in the South� (BBC 7/2). Also reporting: UPI via Newsmax Meanwhile, the Stalinist regime has �has begun reprocessing spent fuel rods� of plutonium into weapons-grade material, according to South Korean intelligence cited by the BBC 7/9. South Korean intelligence also reported that the North conducted �about 70 tests on explosive devices linked to its nuclear programme� in Youngdoktong. U.S. intelligence came to a similar conclusion on the plutonium last week (Bill Gertz, Washington Times). OTHER NUCLEAR NEWS CONGRESSMAN WELDON GOES PUBLIC WITH PLAN Congressman Curt Weldon (R-Pennsylvania) has gone public with his plan (see last North Korea Report) to give North Korea everything it wants � including security guarantees and �comprehensive economic development� (BBC) if it gives up its nuclear weapons program � the very thing it already pledged to do several times. (Plan reprinted in Washington Times). The Bush Administration was quick to respond to the proposal � and it wasn�t positive. �We are not going to pay for the elimination of North Korea's nuclear-weapons program � a program the North should never have begun in the first place,� said Undersecretary of State John Bolton (Washington Times). Also reporting: Newsmax U.S. MEETS WITH OTHER PSI MEMBERS TODAY The United States is meeting with the other members of the Proliferation Security Initiative � the group that in everything but name is the one designed to block North Korea�s arms and drug trades. The U.S. is hoping the group will go forward on plans to stop North Korea�s illicit trades. Report: United Press International via Washington Times Stop the North Korean Nuclear Power Plants: Despite North Korea�s boast of nuclear weapons, a brazen violation of the 1994 agreement to freeze its nuclear ambitions, the two nuclear power plants that were part of the deal have still not been canceled. Use this China e-Lobby fact sheet and tell the President to kill the power plants. AXIS OF EVIL NEWS NORTH KOREAN FIRM HIT WITH U.S. SANCTIONS FOR AIDING IRAN The Bush Administration hit the Changgwang Sinyong Corporation �for selling weapons technology to Iran� (BBC). The firm is �already under penalties in the US� for being in the Iranian arms trade, a violation of the 2000 Iran Non-Proliferation Act. NEWS ON COMMUNIST CHINA�S ROLE SECURITY COUNCIL LEAVES NORTH KOREA ALONE, THANKS TO PRC INTRANSIGENCE Communist China�s efforts to keep the United Nations Security Council from even making a statement condemning North Korea�s nuclear weapons program (see last North Korea Report) proved successful; the UNSC took no action (CNN). Stalinist North Korea had earlier told the UNSC not to �react on the nuclear crisis� (Newsmax). COMMUNIST CHINA LOOKING TO INVADE NORTH KOREA? In one of the weirder reports out there the Age (Australian) reports that Communist China is considering, among other things, �intervention plans that would see it move to occupy the Stalinist state and block the possibility of war.� OTHER AMERICAN-RELATED NEWS U.S. TALKING TO NORTH KOREA ABOUT AMERICAN DEFECTORS The U.S. has begun talks with North Korea about American defectors to the Stalinist regime �to account for U.S. soldiers who never returned from the Korean War� (Washington Times). It should be noted that the family of the most well known �deserter� � Charles Robert Jenkins � insists he was abducted (see 12/19/02 North Korea Report). Also reporting: BBC OTHER SOUTH KOREA NEWS ROH MOO-HYUN IN BEIJING, TALKS CENTER ON NORTH KOREAN NUKES South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun is in Beijing for a three-day trip, a visit �dominated by the confrontation over North Korea's nuclear weapons programme� (BBC). Roh met with PRC President Hu Jintao, who repeated the never-ending Communist call for the U.S. to �earnestly consider the security concerns of North Korea� (CNN). COMMENTARY/ANALYSIS ON THE KOREAN WAR Mike Chinoy, CNN, talks to Bob Nagle, a Korean War veteran returning to the peninsula for the 50th anniversary of the armistice that ended � or to be accurate, suspended � the war. Ryan Dilley, BBC, wonders why so little is written about the war. ON THE U.S. AND NORTH KOREA Is the U.S. planning to leave South Korea to defend itself against the North? Or is it just part of the plans for �the evolving lean-and-mean American military�? Newsmax examines the situation. Lawrence Kaplan, in The New Republic, calls the Bush Administration�s policy on North Korea both schizophrenic and effective. Meanwhile, he makes some good points on the interdiction policy, and does see �regime change� as the best solution. He just doesn�t see it happening any time soon. Perhaps if Bush et al focused more on liberation . . . In his analysis of Kaplan�s piece, Randall Parker (Parapundit founder and Member since 2003) expands his previous recommendations for American policy on the Stalinist regime. He focuses almost exclusively on busting the �regime information monopoly� (I quote to credit, not to disparage; Parker is absolutely right here). ON JAPAN AND NORTH KOREA Eric Weiner, of National Public Radio, details North Korea�s smuggling operations in Japan � which even includes pinball � in The New Republic. The Japanese Asahi Shimbun comes out against killing the two nuclear power plants being built for and in the Stalinist regime by the U.S., Japan, and South Korea, as part of the 1994 nuclear weapons agreement that North Korea admitted it violated last fall (Washington Times, last paragraph). ON KIM JONG-IL Adriana S. Lee, Time Asia, interviews Sung Hae Rang, sister-in-law of Stalinist-in-chief Kim Jong-il, and reveals a mercurial, volatile man who is successor, builder, and victim of the twisted, sickening legacy of North Korea�s �founder� Kim Il-sung. Check out the Communist China and the Terrorist War page. Sign the petition for an American boycott of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. Miss an Update, Week's Links, or a North Korea Report? Find it via our home page. Feel free to forward this to anyone you think might be interested in receiving it. Anyone who wishes to join can send his/her name and e-mail address to [email protected]. Please feel free to send any news on Communist China or North Korea that you happen to find to the same address. |