| Home page To receive this publication via e-mail, click here. THE NORTH KOREA REPORT: JUNE 21, 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: COMMUNIST CHINA HELPING NORTH KOREA SELL WMD MATERIALS BOTH REGIMES AIDING IRAN BEOCME A NUCLEAR POWER; PRC �HELP� ON NK IS MINIMAL The U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission reported to Congress that Communist China has been allowing its ally North Korea �to use its air, rail, and seaports to trans-ship ballistic missiles and WMD-related materials� (Cybercast News). Meanwhile, both North Korea and its PRC ally are helping Iran become a nuclear power. In particular, both Communist China and North Korea sent �experts� to supervise �the installation of centrifuge equipment to enrich uranium� (BBC). The Commission also noted that the PRC had done little, if anything, �to push Pyongyang towards accepting complete, verifiable, and irreversible dismantling of its nuclear programs.� WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION NEWS AS NEW TALKS ARE ANNOUNCED, JAPAN AND SOUTH KOREA PROMISE AID TO NORTH The government of dovish South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun greeted the news of yet another round of six-way talks on North Korea�s nuclear weapons program � they begin this week � with a promise of �massive aid� to the North �if the dispute over Pyongyang's nuclear weapons program is peacefully ended� (Voice of America via Epoch Times). Whatever �peacefully ended� means was left unclear, but the goodies weren�t. The aid �would include cooperation in all industries.� Additionally, �Seoul will help its impoverished neighbor forge economic ties with the international community.� Japan also promised aid � to the Stalinist regime �if the secretive state freezes its nuclear program� (CNN). In other words, the North can keep its weapons and get economic aid if it promises to stop building the weapons it already promised never to build. Two previous rounds of talks on this subject � involving North and South Korea, Russia, Communist China, Japan, and the U.S. � have led to nothing but major U.S. concessions (see 7/14/03 and 12/22/03 NKRs). NEW MEXICO GOVERNOR WANTS U.S. TO BE MORE DOVISH ON NORTH KOREA New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, once the unofficial liaison to the regime (see 1/13/03 NKR) is now calling �for a shift in U.S. strategy toward seeking a compromise with North Korean officials during disarmament talks next week� (Washington Post). Richardson is now backing giving the North what it wants �for a verifiable suspension of North Korea's nuclear programs as a first step toward achieving disarmament.� 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. OTHER NEWS ON COMMUNIST CHINA�S ROLE PRC KILLS NORTH KOREAN REFUGEE MONGOLIAN BORDER Communist border patrol agents shot and killed a teenage refugee from North Korea at the border between the PRC and Mongolia. Six other refugees were arrested. Communist China sends back every North Korean refugee it can find, forcing hundreds of thousands to live as nonperson at the mercy of locals within Communist China. Report: Epoch Times SOUTH KOREA FURIOUS AT REPATRIATION OF SEVEN OTHER REFUGEES South Korea reacted angrily to the news of the arrest and repatriation of seven different North Korean refugees. The cadre who heard South Korea�s condemnation of the move told officials �wanted to return to North Korea because they missed their families� (Voice of America via Epoch Times). The last Update mistakenly connected this story to the shooting. HYUNDAI THROWING MORE MONEY INTO COMMUNIST CHINA Hyundai, best known for putting the $ in $un$hine (see 2/3/03, 2/10/03, 2/17/03, 3/3/03, 3/24/03, 6/30/03, and 8/11/03 NKRs), announced plans �to spend $740m (�414m) in an effort to boost production at its Chinese operation� (BBC). Hyundai is the latest in a series of bedazzled automobile producers throwing money into the PRC. OTHER AMERICAN-RELATED NEWS U.S. RIPS NORTH KOREA FOR ALLOWING SEX TRAFFICKING TO FLOURISH The United States singled out ten nations �for failing to fight international sex trafficking adequately� (Washington Times, second item). Among the ten criticized for looking the other way as �women and girls as young as 6 years old (are) trafficked into commercial sexual exploitation� was none other than Stalinist North Korea. OWNERS OF WASHINGTON TIMES WANT SOFT APPROACH ON NORTH KOREA The fate of the Washington Times could be at stake, especially its coverage of North Korea. According to the Washington Post, the Times owners are pushing �a conciliatory line, including investment in North Korea.� The paper, while easy of President Bush�s multiple-policy-disorder, has been tough on the Stalinist regime itself. U.S. TROOP REDUCTION IS A REACTION TO CHANGING NK THREAT The proposed reduction of American troops in South Korea �are based on 10 years of upgrades in South Korean forces and a U.S. force restructuring of fewer bases with new weapons and equipment� (Bill Gertz, Washington Times). The U.S. is hoping to cut its troop deployment in the South by roughly a third (see 6/1, 6/7, and last NKRs). OTHER SOUTH KOREA NEWS PROPAGANDA BROADCASTS INTO NORTH KOREA END As part of President Roh Moo-hyun�s increasingly hideous $un$hine policy, South Korea fulfilled an earlier agreement (see last NKR) and �ended the propaganda broadcasts� (BBC) sent into North Korea. The need of the people of northern Korea to know the truth about the regime that rules over them is clearly neither important to Roh nor his fellow doves. SOUTH KOREA TO SEND TROOPS TO IRAQ DESPITE HOSTAGE TAKING A band of Iraqi thugs kidnapped Kim Son-il, a South Korean translator, near Fallujah, and told the South Korean government he would be beheaded in 24 hours unless the government reversed its decision to send troops to Iraq (Fox News). Kim could very well be dead by the time this is published (2:30PM EST). The Roh government held firm, and refused to delay the troop deployment, set for August (BBC). While Roh�s determination is commendable, it begs the question: why is South Korea so resolute about problems only when they�re thousands of miles away? NEW CAPITAL DOWN TO FOUR FINALIST CITIES; ROH BREAKS PROMISE ON REFERENDUM South Korea announced for central cities as candidate to replace Seoul as the capital. However, President Roh publicly broke his campaign pledge to hold a referendum on moving the capital. He now says a vote would �undermine parliament's authority� (BBC). This is the Parliament of which his Uri Party won control just two months ago (see 4/19 NKR). FORMER SPIES TO BE COMPENSATED South Korea has also decided �to compensate former secret agents who conducted spy missions to North Korea� (BBC). The policy, currently written as a bill before the legislature, will compensate agents operating between 1948 and 1994, or their surviving relatives if they have died. COMMENTARY/ANALYSIS ON HUMAN RIGHTS IN NORTH KOREA This Washington Post op-ed required registration, but for those willing to do it, Former Czech President and dissident Vaclav Havel has an excellent piece calling for the U.S. and its allies to �state that respect for basic human rights is an integral part of any future discussions with Pyongyang.� NOVEL POLITICS? The combination of Stalinist North Korea�s suffocating hold on information and the naivet� of some in the press has led to this absurdity: Time Asia�s Donald MacIntyre and Kim Yooseung actually envision North Korea opening up because of a novel. EVEN PAT BUCHANAN WON�T BACK LIBERATION Pat Buchanan, in World Net Daily, complains about North Korea (and Iran) becoming nuclear power, but offers no policy solution (where�s the L word?), and says nothing about the ties that bind them to Communist China. ON THE HOSTAGE The BBC spoke to the family of South Korean hostage Kim Sun-il. 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]. 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