Pay heed to North Koreans
Posted : 2021-02-17 16:40
Updated : 2021-02-23 18:00
This is the eighth in a Letter to President Biden series aimed at conveying policy recommendations through open letters from politicians, scholars and experts to the new U.S. president following his Jan. 20 inauguration. ― ED.
By Casey Lartigue, Jr.
Dear Mr. President,
You may not recall it, but we met a few times about 20 years ago when I first started working at the Cato Institute in Washington, D.C. You have worked at high levels in Washington, D.C., over the past 48 years, so it is understandable that you don t recall or may have forgotten.
A senior North Korean diplomat who was acting ambassador to Kuwait told his daughter they were going to defect to the South while pretending to drive her to school, Mr Ryu Hyun-woo told media on Monday (Feb 01).. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Int l pressure intensifying on anti-North Korea leaflet-sending ban
Posted : 2021-01-29 17:05
Updated : 2021-01-31 18:16
Activists prepare to send anti-Kim Jong-un regime propaganda leaflets to North Korea from the border city of Paju, Gyeonggi Province, in this photo from April 2, 2016. Yonhap
By Jung Da-min
The international community s move against South Korea s ban on sending anti-Kim Jong-un regime propaganda leaflets to North Korea is intensifying. Since the National Assembly, which is dominated by the ruling Democratic Party of Korea (DPK), passed a bill to implement the ban last December, criticism has continued to grow internationally that the law undermines freedom of speech, with members of the U.K. Parliament and the U.S. Congress raising the issue and planning to hold a debate and hearing session, respectively.
Int l pressure intensifying on anti-North Korea leaflet-sending ban
Posted : 2021-01-29 17:05
Updated : 2021-01-31 18:16
Activists prepare to send anti-Kim Jong-un regime propaganda leaflets to North Korea from the border city of Paju, Gyeonggi Province, in this photo from April 2, 2016. Yonhap
By Jung Da-min
The international community s move against South Korea s ban on sending anti-Kim Jong-un regime propaganda leaflets to North Korea is intensifying. Since the National Assembly, which is dominated by the ruling Democratic Party of Korea (DPK), passed a bill to implement the ban last December, criticism has continued to grow internationally that the law undermines freedom of speech, with members of the U.K. Parliament and the U.S. Congress raising the issue and planning to hold a debate and hearing session, respectively.
Defections of high-level North Korean officials are telltale symptoms of internal difficulties
Posted : 2021-01-28 15:57
Updated : 2021-01-29 10:27
People hold a campaign in Pyongyang, North Korea, to uphold the decisions made at the 8th Congress of the Workers Party of Korea, Jan. 20. / Yonhap
By Do Je-hae
The arrival in South Korea of a former acting ambassador at the North Korean Embassy in Kuwait just over a year ago has renewed attention to a series of defections to the South by high-level diplomats under Kim Jong-un s rule.
Some South Korean media reports said that Ryu Hyun-woo, who led the North Korean mission in Kuwait since the 2017 expulsion of former Ambassador So Chang-sik, arrived in the South in September 2019 and has settled here. The authorities have yet to confirm these reports, although Ryu s arrival was relayed to the media by other former North Korean diplomats who defected, such as Rep. Tae Yong-ho, a former minister at the North Korean Embassy in the