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...Democratic People’s Republic of Korea?? (DPRK) has amply demonstrated its enthusiasm for selling illicit arms on the international market. In 2002, for instance, the Spanish navy intercepted a North Korean vessel shipping scud missiles to Yemen. Back in 1998 the DPRK was found to have sold missile technology to Pakistan’s Khan Research Lab. (As in Abdul Qadeer Khan, who confessed this year to selling nuclear technology to Libya and Iran.) The danger that the regime will now sell nuclear weapons to terrorists cannot be brushed aside...
Earlier this month, as it happens, the British Broadcasting Company (BBC) aired a shocking report on North Korea??s sprawling network of concentration camps, modeled on the Soviet Gulag, which holds an estimated 200,000 or more inmates. The documentary’s centerpiece was an interview with Kwon Hyok, a former North Korean intelligence agent who defected to the South in 1999. He was once the head of security at Prison Camp 22—where, he now alleges, chemical weapons were tested on prisoners. “I witnessed a whole family being tested on suffocating...
While she doesn’t dispute the immediate strategic concerns, Liang-Fenton regrets that the six-party talks in Beijing—which reopen today—have heretofore focused exclusively on North Korea??s nuclear program, without regard for its appalling human rights violations. Consequently, she says, “Most people in the U.S. know about the nuke situation in North Korea, but not the humanitarian situation...
Despite the continued debate over research, and South Korea??s significant breakthrough, Harvard scientists say they are excited by the progress in the field...
...Dean Joseph S. Nye Jr., who moderated the panel, said that Han’s absence had prevented what “was about to be the reunion of a foursome that first got together in 1994,” when Han served as South Korea??s foreign minister, Carter and Nye worked at the Pentagon, and Hubbard worked as a deputy assistant secretary of state...