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Breen and Cagle both said that one of the examples cited in The Crimson yesterday, Breeden’s Oct. 11 cartoon showing North Korean leader Kim Jong Il with a mushroom cloud rising from his head, does not constitute plagiarism. Eight similar cartoons are posted on Cagle’s blog, including one by Cagle himself...
...must abandon our idea that, given enough time, the current regime will collapse,” said panelist Stephen W. Linton, who has traveled to North Korea over 50 times as a humanitarian aid worker and now heads the Eugene Bell Foundation, which provides medical aid to North Koreans. “The U.S. needs to get real about the situation in East Asia,” he said. Ashton B. Carter, Ford Foundation professor of science and international affairs, moderated the standing-room-only event. “What has transpired in North Korea represents the most serious disaster...
North Korea's surprise decision to return to the suspended six-party talks over its nascent nuclear program may be the first positive glimmer from the Korean peninsula in nearly a year, but any celebration by the U.S. or its allies would be way too premature. The multilateral negotiations have been replete in the past with false starts and dashed hopes. And it's not clear that all six parties - North Korea, South Korea, Russia, China, Japan and the U.S - are on the same page...
...second cartoon by Breeden, published Oct. 18 depicts North Koreans worshipping a nuclear weapon. Kim Jong Il states in the foreground, “See! I know they’d appreciate it!” and another North Korean responds, “Are you sure? It appears they’re eating dirt.” That cartoon is similar to a Jan. 9, 2003, cartoon by Stephen Breen syndicated by Copley News, which depicts four people apparently worshiping Kim Jong Il, who is holding a nuclear weapon and stating, “That?...
...DIED. Henry Fok Ying-tung, 83, low-key Hong Kong tycoon who was one of the Chinese leadership's most trusted advisers; in Beijing. During the Korean War, Fok defied a U.S. embargo and dispatched aid to China. In ensuing years, Beijing showered him with business contracts and official honors. Fok, an aide told reporters, was "a true patriot...