| Home page To receive this publication via e-mail, click here. THE NORTH KOREA REPORT: JULY 12, 2004 Dragon in the Dark: How and Why Communist China Helps Our Enemies in the War on Terror is now available: here, at Amazon, or at 1-888-280-7715. Our statement on why northern Korea must be liberated can be found here. TOP STORY: NORTH KOREA DEPLOYING MISSILES THAT COULD HIT GUAM Sources in the South Korean Defense Ministry (via SK�s Chosun Ilbo) say North Korea is �producing and deploying new intermediate-range missiles� (Washington Times) which could reach �Japan's Okinawa Prefecture as well as Guam and areas near Hawaii.� North Korea is also developing a long-range missile that could hit the continental U.S. (see 2/17/03 NKR). Stop the North Korean Nuclear Power Plants: Are the plants dead or aren�t they? You can make sure they don�t come back! Use this China e-Lobby fact sheet and tell the President to kill the power plants from the 1994 agreement that North Korea broke. NEWS ON COMMUNIST CHINA�S ROLE COMMUNIST CHINESE POLICE SHOOT AND KILL NK REFUGEE Communist police, in the process of arresting North Korean refugees trying to escape to Mongolia, shot at the refugees, killing one. While one refugee support group said the shooting was accidental, the cause of this tragedy is the PRC policy of returning to North Korea any refugee it can find (Broadcasting Corporation of China via Epoch Times). ABDUCTION NEWS HITOMI SOGA VISITS HER FAMILY IN INDONESIA Former U.S. Army sergeant Charles Robert Jenkins and his daughters are with his wife, Japanese abduction victim Hitomi Soga, in Indonesia (the last NKR mistakenly reported that the daughters would be left behind). Reports: BBC, CNN, Cybercast News Soga was allowed to return to Japan two years ago after more than two decades in North Korea. Jenkins, who entered the North in 1965, was left behind with their two daughters. The U.S. Army says he defected; his family insists he was also kidnapped (see 9/23/02, 9/30/02, 10/7/02, 10/14/02, 10/21/02, 10/28/02, 11/18/02, and 12/19/02 NKRs). HUMAN RIGHTS AND INTERNAL NEWS KIM JONG-IL MARKS FATHER�S DEATH North Korea paid his respects to its Stalinist founder, Kim Il-sung, who died ten years ago Thursday. Kim � whose son Kim Jong-il took over for him and rules the regime to this day � began the enslavement of northern Korea nearly sixty years ago, officially launching the regime in 1948. Reports: United Press International via Washington Times, BBC COMMENTARY/ANALYSIS ON CHARLES ROBERT JENKINS For years, the United States Army and North Korea have called Charles Robert Jenkins a deserter. His family insists he was kidnapped by the Stalinist regime, and has presented their case on the web site In Support of Charles Robert Jenkins. CNN, David McNeill of The Independent (UK), and both Sarah Buckley and Rachel Harvey from the BBC also weigh in. KIM IL-SUNG�S SICKENING LEGACY: TEN YEARS LATER Steve Herman, Voice of America (via Epoch Times), examines the plight of the people of northern Korea ten years after the death of 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 would be interested in receiving it. Anyone who wishes to join (or unsubscribe or change their address) can send his/her name to [email protected]. Please feel free to send any news on Communist China or North Korea that you find to the same address. |