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Happy Birthday, Kim Il-sung

April 13th, 2013

By Dan Miller Well, sorta. Maybe it will be his last, but I wouldn’t count on it. Kim Il-sung was born (it is written and may even be true) on April 15, 1912. There are over 500 statues of Kim Il-sung in North Korea. The most prominent are at Kim Il-sung University, Kim Il-sung Stadium, Mansudae Hill, Kim Il-sung […]

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Tags: Japan, Kim Il-sung, North Korea, nuclear weapons, South Korea, threat, war
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North Korea, Missile and Nuclear Test

April 12th, 2012

By Dan Miller North Korea plans to launch an “Earth observation satellite” into orbit, possibly as soon as tonight New York time. The missile launch to celebrate the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Kim Il-sung is scheduled for between April 12th and 16th. All preparations, including fueling, are nearing completion. The final preparations […]

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Tags: DPRK, Japan, missile, North Korea, nuclear, rocket, satellite, South Korea
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Historical and Cultural Perspectives on Korea Are Necessary

December 21st, 2011

By Dan Miller Although from the same culture, the two Koreas are now very different. In February of this year, North Korea celebrated the sixty-ninth birthday of Dear (not really) Leader Kim Jong-il. Following the official announcement at noon on December 19th of his death on the morning of December 17th, there were many instant […]

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Tags: China, DPRK, Japan, Kim Jong-il, Kim Jong-un, North Korea, succession
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Is Another Conflict Coming to Korea?

October 22nd, 2011

By Dan Miller Until recently, there had been little new in the northern part of the Korean Peninsula. North Koreans continue to starve, the country begs for food, and the barely fed prisoner-slaves (there are up to 200,000 political prisoners there) grow poppies to make heroin to provide state export revenues of $500 million to one […]

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Tags: foreign policy, Iran, Japan, Kim Jong-il, North Korea, nuclear, sanctions
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Vietnam: Another Kind of Adventure

August 23rd, 2011

By Jan Barry W.D. Ehrhart has been turning the tragedy of the Vietnam war inside-out, upside-down and sideways in a whirlwind of memoirs, articles, poems, poetry anthologies and travel pieces since surviving the battle of Hue in 1968—and living to ponder what the hell all the death, destruction and desperate encounters in Indochina added up […]

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Tags: DMZ, Ehrhart, Hanoi, Hue, Japan, Marines, Takenaga, Vietnam, war
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