| THE NORTH KOREA REPORT: JULY 22, 2002 NEWS AIR LINK BETWEEN KOREAS OPEN, TO BE USED MAINLY FOR NK NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS North and South Korea established the first inter-Korean air route over the weekend, although the BBC reports that regular passengers will not be allowed to use it (what a surprise). The main use of the air link will be to fly workers to the Stalinist regime to build the two power plants in exchange for its pledge not to continue its nuclear weapons program � a pledge the U.S. has stated the North is not following. Stop the Nuclear Power Deal: As the above story notes, the United States is still building two nuclear power plants in North Korea. Meanwhile, the Stalinist regime refuses to let us inspect their nuclear weapons program to verify that it has been stopped, as the agreement demands. Use this China e-Lobby fact sheet and tell the President to cancel the deal. NORTH KOREA ENDS RICE RATIONING, WILL NOW �SELL� RICE TO ITS PEOPLE North Korea has apparently junked the rationing of rice, and been selling food to its people and adjusted their wages �in line with their job performance� (BBC). While the BBC story called it �a major step towards the introduction of a market economy,� it should be noted that Communist regime have sold items � when they had them � to their people for years. The story also did not mention what �in line with their job performance� meant. As North Korea has suffered a near-decade-long famine � nearly 2 million dead � the Stalinist regime has made matters much worse by stealing international food aid and hoarding it for Party members and the military. Anyone want to guess the �job performance� of Party and military members relative to the rest of the population? BRITISH FM CALLS FOR PRC TO WORK AGAINST ARMS SALES TO IRAQ, NORTH KOREA Jack Straw, Foreign Minister for the United Kingdom, in Beijing for bilateral talks with Communist China, called on the PRC to help stop the proliferation of weapons to states such as Iraq and North Korea (BBC). Of course, Communist China is one of the biggest culprits in this area, with a history of weapons sales to Iran, Syria, Libya, and Iraq; North Korea is the PRC�s oldest ally. COMMENTARY/ANALYSIS EXILE SOON OK LEE TESTIFIES TO HORRIFYING PRISON CONDITIONS IN NORTH KOREA Confirming much of what was reported in the June 18 NK Report, Soon Ok Lee testified to the Senate Judiciary Committee last month on the infanticide, torture, political executions, and other atrocities in the prisons of the Stalinist regime. The Guardian (UK) excerpted her testimony and made this report. Links Courtesy Andrew Stuttaford, National Review Online, Member since 2002 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? Find it on our web site. Check out the latest on Communist China and the Terrorist War. There�s still time to contact the President and tell him not to appoint pro-PRC Doug Paal as de facto ambassador to Taiwan. See Follow-Up for more on Paal. 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 you happen to find to the same address. |