President Lee "Bulldozer" Inaugurated!

Lee Myung-bak inaugurated as president of South Korea - International Herald Tribune: "SEOUL, South Korea: Hard-charging former businessman Lee Myung-bak took the oath of office as South Korea's new president Monday, vowing to revitalize the economy, strengthen relations with the U.S. and deal with nuclear-armed North Korea.

The conservative, pro-U.S. Lee, nicknamed 'The Bulldozer' for the can-do image he honed as a construction company CEO and later as mayor of Seoul, was sworn into office in a colorful outdoor ceremony at the National Assembly in the presence of tens of thousands of onlookers."

Private Citizens Liberating North Korea with Shortwave Radio

Now here's an idea!

Daily NK - Private Citizens Liberating North Korea with Shortwave Radio: "Anyone Can Broadcast

Ha explained that ORNK allows individuals, student groups, and private organizations to broadcast messages to North Korean people through shortwave radio. ORNK uses shortwave radio primarily because unlike AM and FM frequencies that are controlled by national governments and have a limited range, shortwave can be sent anywhere in the world and with little legal limitations. Ha stated that ORNK does not prepare the messages sent to North Korea; rather, you, the audience, submit the messages. Eagerly burning the midnight oil to overcome the radio censorship in North Korea, Ha and his staff, which is partly comprised of North Korean defectors, broadcast your messages over North Korea between 11 and 12pm."

I strongly recommend NOT reaching out and touching someone in North Korea

'North Korea Intensifies Press Oppression'(The Korea Times):
North Korea executed the director of one of its state-run companies last year for having made phone calls abroad without permission, according to an international association of journalists.

"North Korea is the world's most isolated country and the security forces are responsible for keeping it that way at all costs,'' Reporters Without Borders based in Paris said last week in its annual report covering 98 countries."

Japan ties North Korea, Soccer

AFP: Japanese footballers battle to earn draw with North Korea: "Chinese spectators at the Chongqing Olympic Sports Centre Stadium got behind their communist neighbours and constantly jeered Japan, with whom China has a long-running bitter rivalry."










Soccer ball sails past North Korean Goalie-bot. The Dear Leader will not be happy. Not Happy!

Happy New Year!

My two angels in their formals to wish their grandparents a happy new year.

Daily NK - Fake Underground Churches Established by the National Security Agency for Money

Daily NK - Fake Underground Churches Established by the National Security Agency for Money: "According to a testimony from a source inside the North, some underground churches operating in the North are, in fact, fake churches which take orders from the National Security Agency and whose mission is to unmask underground Christians.

“It was found to be true that the conspiracy department of the National Security Agency operating in the border area had established a fake church consisted of its security agents...

In North Korea, the family that prays together, gets gassed together

What a slogan.

Was reading a book recently by Natan Sharansky where he interviewed a former North Korean prison guard. He witnessed the the execution of a family that were deemed enemies of the state. A mother, father, and child. The former guard, fully remembers at the time how he viewed the family as animals, true enemies of North Korea. He believed they fully deserved to die in that gas chamber. Who knows what the 'crime' was, if there even was one. Doubt it.
But can you imagine witnessing the gassing of a complete family...before your eyes.

This regime must eliminated.

American defectors to North Korea? O-tay!

North Korean Defectors

Captured from the Youtube site:

October 2007
They risk all trying to make it across the North Korean border to China, only to find no guarantee of a better life. At constant risk of being deported, these refugees live a half life in the shadows.
"I thought if I came to China life would be better", laments one woman. "I was wrong". Without Chinese language skills, most North Korean refugees remain at risk of being discovered by the police. "The police pay 200 yuan to anyone who discloses the whereabouts of North Koreans", explains one refugee. "That's what I'm most afraid of. I'm always hiding". Easy prey for the unscrupulous, they're forced to do dangerous jobs for little money. "Most North Korean women fall into the hands of human traffickers", states activist Tim Peters. "They're sold into prostitution". Unlike other countries, China classes North Korean refugees as economic migrants. If caught, they face return to Pyongyang and almost certain execution. "North Koreans are being sent back by the hundreds", complains Peters. Without external pressure, the situation for these refugees is unlikely to improve. Their only hope is that scrutiny surrounding the 2008 Beijing Olympics will encourage China to change its policy.