| Home page To receive this publication via e-mail, click here. THE NORTH KOREA REPORT: JULY 19, 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: KELLY DETAILS U.S. SURRENDER � ER, OFFER � ON NK NUKES In testimony to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Assistant Secretary of State James Kelly detailed the Bush Administration�s surrender � oops, there it is again � plan for North Korea�s nuclear weapons (Newsmax). Kelly also acknowledged that the North �is likely to be producing nuclear bombs even as it conducts negotiations� (Washington Post). Kelly admitted that North Korea can receive fuel oil �once it agreed to the overall approach� from the U.S., which still gives the regime three months to hide its nuclear weapons from future �international verification.� This �plan� would also include �provisional multilateral security assurances� as North Korea followed the supposed path to disarmament. None of this is new, of course (see 6/28 NKR). What is new, and the only piece of good news, was that North Korea would not get full diplomatic relations from merely pretending to be nuclear-free. Kelly said the North must address its horrible human rights record and its history of being a terrorist arms bazaar, among other things, for full diplomatic ties. 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. ABDUCTION NEWS JENKINS IN JAPAN FOR MEDICAL TREATMENT; US WILL WAIT BEFORE TRYING HIM Former U.S. Army sergeant Charles Robert Jenkins flew into Japan �for urgent medical treatment� (BBC). While, the U.S. intends to push for his extradition � the Army charged him with desertion in 1965 when he entered North Korea � that is now on hold at least until Jenkins is treated. Japan is likely to ask the U.S. not to try him. Jenkins was joined by his wife � Japanese abduction victim Hitomi Soga � and their daughters. Soga was one of at least thirteen Japanese citizens abducted by North Korea. She was allowed to return to Japan two years ago (see 9/23/02, 9/30/02, 10/7/02, 10/14/02, 10/21/02, 10/28/02, 11/18/02, 12/19/02, and last NKRs). Jenkins and the children stayed in North Korea until last week; supposedly because of the charges against him. Japanese PM Junichiro Koizumi himself said �he will ask the US for �special consideration�� for Jenkins. Jenkins� family insists he did not defect, but was himself kidnapped in 1965. Also reporting: CNN, Voice of America via Epoch Times OTHER AMERICAN-RELATED NEWS BOLTON IN SOUTH KOREA Assistant Secretary of State John Bolton, the lead arms control official in the Bush Administration, is in South Korea �for talks with South Korean officials on North Korea's nuclear weapons programs� (United Press International via Washington Times). OTHER SOUTH KOREA NEWS DESPITE �HOTLINE,� NK SHIP CROSSES BORDER, DRAWS SOUTH KOREAN FIRE The much-ballyhooed introduction of an inter-Korean hotline did nothing to prevent yet another naval border incursion by a North Korean vessel. South Korea �used the inter-Korean hot line four times to try to contact an intruding North Korean patrol boat� (Washington Times), before send a message the old fashioned way � with warning shots. North Korea crossed the sea border � known as the Northern Limit Line � three times last year. Two years ago a trespassing Stalinist vessel had a brief gun battle with the South Korean navy, killing at least four (see 7/1/02, 7/8/02, 6/2/03, 6/9/03, and 9/2/03 NKRs). COMMENTARY/ANALYSIS ON CHARLES ROBERT JENKINS Three more views came in this week. Jim Frederick of Time Asia examines the likelihood Jenkins will be extradited to the United States: not high, �so long as he doesn't leave his hospital bed.� Robert Marquand (Christian Science Monitor) and Jonathan Head (BBC) provide the angles from Japan, the U.S. military, and (albeit briefly) Jenkins� U.S. family. ON SOUTH KOREA AND THE U.S. Nora Boustany, Washington Post, interviews Han Sung Joo, South Korea�s Ambassador to the United States. 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. |