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...Court concluded that Song, under an alias, had been a member of North Korea's Politburo since 1991, and his ideological writings "misled many South Koreans." Song, a naturalized German citizen, admitted to receiving money from the North, visiting North Korea numerous times and meeting with Stalinist dictator Kim Il Sung in 1991. His son has called him a "political prisoner of conscience," and Song's lawyer says he will appeal the sentence...
...attempt to intimidate publications that criticized his policies. (In 1999, the International Press Institute in Vienna even sent the future Nobel Laureate a letter begging him to desist from his campaign against South Korea's free press.) Then there was the acclaimed Kim Dae Jung-Kim Jong Il summit in Pyongyang in June 2000?the supposedly historic "peace breakthrough" that later turned out to have been purchased furtively and illegally, with a price tag of at least $100 million, through the transfer of South Korean taxpayer money to the Dear Leader's bank accounts...
...There is, of course, a winner in this tragedy. His name is Kim Jong Il. With South Korea in political turmoil, North Korea's degree of freedom in its nuclear confrontation with the Western world expands quite nicely. In the immediate future, the North need no longer worry about coordinated international efforts to press Pyongyang for nuclear compliance, because those efforts would inevitably require coordination with the now dysfunctional government in Seoul...
...nearly six decades, North Korean doctrine has maintained that the South Korean political system is riddled with rot, tottering under its own contradictions and ready for a fall. That propaganda sounds uncomfortably plausible today. For their own sake?and the world's?South Koreans must prove Kim Jong Il wrong. It is still their republic?if they can keep...
Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787) was represented by his “Di questa cetra” from Il Parnasi confuso which exhibited Bartoli’s sublime command of mellifluous and seamless tonal transitions and passages that hovered and drifted weightlessly through her listeners, lingering hauntingly in the air. The latter half of the concert was comprised of eleven pieces by Antonio Salieri (1750-1825) drawn from La fiera di Venezia, Armida, La secchia rapita, La finta scema, La scuola de’ gelosi, Palmira, Regina di Persia, and La cifra...