| Home page To receive this publication via e-mail, click here. THE NORTHERN KOREA REPORT: NOVEMBER 29, 2004 Dragon in the Dark: How and Why Communist China Helps Our Enemies in the War on Terror is now available here (or call1-888-280-7715). Our statement on why northern Korea must be liberated can be found here. TOP STORY: SCNK SCIENTISTS CONFIRM REGIME�S PRISONER CHEMICAL TESTS NOW IN ROK, DEFECTORS TELL SIMON WIESENTHAL OFFICIAL OF GAS EXPERIMENTS Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, interviewed three scientists from Stalinist-controlled northern Korea who �detailed chilling experiments in which prisoners were placed in glass chambers and exposed to chemicals that killed them within hours� (Washington Times). The scientists, who defected to the democratic Republic of Korea (�South� Korea), spoke of the experiments � which involved gas chemicals � to Rabbi Cooper for 10 hours. Two of them �were sources for two presentations by the British Broadcasting Corp. (BBC) earlier this year� (see also 2/2, 2/9, 2/16, 4/5, and 8/2 NKRs). WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION NEWS CIA REPORT CITES SCNK THREAT TO SELL NUCLEAR WEAPONS An unclassified report from the Central Intelligence Agency contained �the first official confirmation� (Bill Gertz, Washington Times) that the Stalinist regime �threatened in secret talks to export nuclear weapons and to conduct a test blast.� Of course, it wasn�t the first reports of the threats; for those, see the 4/28/03 and 9/2/03 NKRs. UN OFFICIAL SAYS SCNK �POSITIVE� ABOUT TALKS United Nations General Assembly President Jean Ping told ROK Unification Minister Chung Dong-young that �North Korea has given him a very positive message on resuming six-party talks on its nuclear ambitions� (Voice of America via Epoch Times). Ping supposedly heard this from number two Stalinist Kim Yong Nam. Kim has said nothing publicly. COMMUNIST CHINA, JAPAN, AND ROK WANT SIX-PARTY TALKS TO RESUME Meanwhile, Communist China, Japan, and the ROK (�South Korea�) expressed �hope that new talks on North Korea's nuclear programs can be held by year's end� (Washington Times, third item). The six-party talks on the Stalinists� nuclear ambitions include the aforementioned three, plus the U.S., Russia, and the Stalinists themselves. There have been three previous rounds of the now-suspended six-party talks on ending Stalinist-controlled northern Korea�s nuclear weapons program. Outside of U.S. concessions and Stalinist hyperbole (see 10/21/02, 12/8/03, 12/22/03, 6/7, 6/28, 9/20, and 9/28 NKRs), the talks have not produced much. 1994 AGREED FRAMEWORK SUSPENDED FOR ANOTHER YEAR The Korean Energy Development Organization � created by the 1994 Agreed Framework � �extended for another year a freeze on a project to build two light-water nuclear reactors in North Korea� (Washington Times, last item). The decision was made by the four major players in KEDO � the United States, Japan, South Korea and the European Union. The reactors were part of the 1994 deal that included a �freeze� of SCNK�s nuclear weapons program. The regime admitted to violating that deal two years ago (see 10/21/02 NKR). Stop the SCNK 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 SCNK broke. OTHER NEWS ON COMMUNIST CHINA�S ROLE COMMUNIST CHINA CALLS SCNK �STABLE;� DENIES REPORTS OF TROOP DEPLOYMENT Amid the myriad reports of Stalinist-in-chief Kim Jong-il�s portraits coming down (see last NKR), Communist China�s Vice Foreign Minister insisted that the regime is �stable� (BBC). He also said �the leaders are thinking seriously about economic reform. See Human Rights and Internal News for more on the disaster that has become. The Communists also �dismissed reports in a South Korean newspaper of an impending Chinese troop buildup along the border with North Korea� (Washington Post, last item). OTHER AMERICAN-RELATED NEWS U.S. ARMY FREES CHARLES ROBERT JENKINS FOR GOOD BEHAVIOR The United States Army cut short Charles Robert Jenkins� desertion sentence for �for good behavior� (CNN). Sergeant Jenkins admitted to deserting his post and entering SCNK to avoid going to Vietnam, hoping to �defect to the Soviet Embassy before returning to the United States.� Instead, the Stalinists kept and tortured him. Also reporting: BBC Jenkins later married Japanese abduction victim Hitoma Soga because she hated the regime as much as he had come to hate it. Soga returned to Japan in 2002; Jenkins and their children left SCNK earlier this year. (see also 9/23/02, 9/30/02, 10/7/02, 10/14/02, 10/21/02, 10/28/02, 11/18/02, 12/19/02, 5/24, 7/19, 7/27, 8/10, and 10/11 NKRs). ROK PARLIAMENTARY DELEGATION VISITS U.S. A delegation from the ROK (�South Korea�) Parliament �urged the Bush administration to maintain multilateral talks with North Korea to reduce the nuclear threat posed by the communist government� (Washington Times). The group was �led by Chung Eui-yong of the ruling Uri Party and Park Jin of the opposition Grand National Party.� The Uri Party is the more dovish of the two parties, while the Grand National Party is more openly hawkish on Stalinist-controlled northern Korea � and more supportive of the U.S. HUMAN RIGHTS AND INTERNAL NEWS MORE EVIDENCE THAT MUCH-HYPED �REFORMS� ARE STARVING FAMILIES The Stalinist regime�s supposed reforms �have led to skyrocketing food prices, leaving most families unable to get enough to eat� (BBC). It was yet another sign that the �reforms� have been a spectacular failure (see 7/22/02, 7/29/02, 1/28/03, and 10/25 NKRs). OTHER REPUBLIC OF KOREA (�SOUTH� KOREA) NEWS IAEA CRITICIZES NUCLEAR TESTS, BUT WON�T BRING IN SECURITY COUNCIL The International Atomic Energy Agency �rebuked South Korea for conducting undeclared and illegal nuclear experiments� (BBC). However, due the infinitesimal amount of the plutonium and uranium involved, and the �number of corrective actions� taken by the ROK, there will be no action taken by the IAEA�s boss � the United Nations Security Council. COMMENTARY/ANALYSIS CALLS FOR THE LIBERATION OF NORTHERN KOREA . . . Bennett Ramberg, a veteran of the Bush the Elder Administration, includes in a wide-ranging Washington Times column on the axis of evil this comment: �Unlike Libya, North Korea has not crossed a tipping point that would allow it to give up the bomb. That point may come only with the demise of the Communist regime.� Weekly Standard editor William Kristol summarizes and praises Nicholas Eberstadt�s policy prescriptions for SCNK (as the last NKR reveals, they include pushing for liberation) on the Project for the New American Century. . . . AND ITS IMMEDIATE PROSPECTS Donald MacIntyre finds the chance of immediate change in SCNK is not good, but his Time Asia column accurately details the problem Stalinist-in-chief Kim Jong-il faces, including his disastrous �reforms.� ON KOREA AND THE UNITED STATES Patrick Goodenough, Cybercast News, examines the continuing drift between President Bush and dovish ROK President Roh Moo-hyun. Slate columnist Fred Kaplan lays into Undersecretary of State and prominent SCNK hawk John Bolton (see 6/9/03 NKR), who may become Deputy Secretary under Condoleezza Rice. Check out the Communist China and the Terrorist War page. Sign the petition for an American boycott of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. 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