| THE NORTH KOREA REPORT: NOVEMBER 11, 2002 On this Veterans� Day, let us not forget those from the �Forgotten War� who kept South Korea free, and who, but for the massive intervention of Communist China, would have freed the North as well. Our statement on what should be done about North Korea (hint: regime change) can be found here. NEWS NORTH KOREA THREATENS NEW MISSILE TESTS IF JAPAN TALKS REMAIN STYMIED It�s back to intimidation for the Stalinist regime. North Korea threatened to end its self-imposed moratorium on missile testing if talks on normalizing diplomatic relations with Japan continued to go nowhere. North Korean missile testing included the infamous 1998 Taepodong test, in which the missile was literally test-fired over Japan. Reports: BBC, CNN, Washington Post The talks had been stymied thanks to the North�s refusal to end its nuclear weapons program, a violation of several agreements, and continued wrangling over the five Japanese who survived being kidnapped by the Stalinists during 1978-83. The North insists the other eight died, but their explanations were so absurd that many do not believe them. For more on the abductees, see Abduction News below. U.S. TO RECOMMEND MISSILE SHIELD TO JAPAN The United States �is expected to urge Japan to develop and build its own version of a national missile defense shield� (CNN) in reaction to the Stalinists� threat of missile tests and its ongoing nuclear weapons program. The U.S. and Japan agreed to a �joint study� of missile defense after the Taepodong test. EX-AMERICAN OFFICIAL SAYS NUCLEAR POWER DEAL IS NOT DEAD Meanwhile, former U.S. Ambassador to South Korea Donald Gregg went to Pyongyang, on his own, and said he interpreted statements from the Stalinists that they � get this � �still supported� (BBC) the 1994 nuclear power deal that they themselves �nullified.� Whether this is simple American na�vet� or Stalinist realization that the goodies in the deal can still be had remains to be seen. Also reporting: CNN FUEL OIL SHIPPED OUT TO NORTH KOREA; U.S. AND ALLIES CAN�T AGREE TO STOP IT YET Part of the egregious 1994 deal, the annual shipment of nearly $100 million in fuel oil, continued last week; the fuel oil left Singapore for the Stalinists. While KEDO, the consortium created by the U.S., Japan, and South Korea to implement the deal is considering halting the shipment (CNN), attempts by the U.S. to cut off all aid to the Stalinists were rebuffed by Japan and South Korea over the weekend (BBC). SOUTH KOREAN PRESIDENTIAL FRONT-RUNNER SAYS STOP BUILDING POWER PLANTS Lee Hoi Chang, the candidate of the opposition Grand National Party in December�s Presidential election, called for his government to �suspend� (Cybercast News) the construction of two nuclear power plants in the North. The plants are the major carrots in the 1994 deal in which the Stalinists said they would halt their nuclear weapons program, a pledge they have now admitted they never kept. Lee, the leader in pre-election polls, has also called for a �review� of outgoing President Kim Dae-jung�s initially praised, but now widely derided, �sunshine� policy of reaching out to North Korea. Lee is much closer to President Bush�s rhetoric � which is still far harsher than the Administration�s actual policies � in his outlook on the Stalinist regime. Stop the Nuclear Power Deal: North Korea has just admitted to continuing its nuclear weapons program, in violation of the 1994 agreement that won it a commitment from the United States to build two nuclear power plants there. The Stalinists now say the deal is dead. Use this China e-Lobby fact sheet and tell the President to react accordingly, and halt the building of the nuclear power plants. NORTH KOREA HAS SMALLPOX Meanwhile, The Washington Post reported that U.S. intelligence has determined that North Korea also has �covert stocks of the smallpox pathogen� as part of its �longstanding and active biological weapons program,� as a CIA report put it. According to Russian intelligence, the Stalinists were also developing �malignant anthrax, cholera, bubonic plague.� ABDUCTION NEWS: SURVIVOR WANTS TO TALK TO HUSBAND, CHILDREN Hitomi Soga, the one of the five Japanese that the North admits survived being kidnapped by the Stalinists, says she wants to speak to her husband, American military deserter C.R. Jenkins, and their children before making a decision on whether she wants to stay in Japan. The other four survivors are two married couples � but the North is held their children back, too (CNN). For more on the abductees, see 9/23/02, 9/30/02, 10/7/02, 10/14/02, 10/21/02, and 10/28/02 North Korea Reports. COMMUNIST CHINA KICKS OUT ACTIVIST WHO HELPED NORTH KOREAN REFUGEES Communist China expelled Hiroshi Kato, a Japanese national who had been helping North Korean refugees hide in the PRC and escape to South Korea via democratic nations� embassies. Hundreds of thousands of North Korean refugees hide in Communist China � which sends back to the Stalinist North any refugee it finds � to escape the totalitarian regime and a massive famine. Report: CNN COMMENTARY/ANALYSIS MORE CALLS FOR THE LIBERATION OF NORTH KOREA This time, Gary Schmitt, of the Project for the New American Century, calls for �a fresh policy course � containment, with the long-term goal of regime change.� Schmitt also notes that �the past decade�s worth of engagement has only increased North Korean ambitions and, in the end, tensions in the region.� He supplemented that piece with another one the following day. Victor Gilinsky, an energy consultant, and Henry Sokolski, executive director of the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center, make some suggestions for a tough policy on North Korea in National Review Online. They also say, �there will be no entirely satisfactory solution to this issue so long as the current regime is in power,� and if the North continues its nuclear ambitions, �We are then in a deep Cold War.� FROM THE �ENGAGEMENT� SIDE Anthony Lake and Robert Gallucci, national security advisor and ambassador at-large to President Clinton respectively, attempt to defend the disastrous 1994 deal, and insist that engagement � they call it �diplomacy� � is the best option in the Washington Post. Meanwhile, Don Oberdorfer also pushes the soft line in the Post. Of course, none of them even considered the liberation of the North from Stalinism. ON NORTH KOREA AND PAKISTAN Jim Hoagland, Washington Post, rips Pakistan for helping North Korea become a nuclear power. Sign the Boycott Petition: In reaction to the 2008 Olympic Games being awarded to Beijing, the China e-Lobby has begun a petition for an American boycott of those games. Miss an Update, Weekly Links, or a North Korea Report? 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