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Those memos were declassified on Aug. 24, along with a 2004 inspector general's report on the CIA's interrogation program. Rather than provide a smoking gun, the documents may have just created more smoke. The detainees who endured the harshest methods coughed up all sorts of information, including plans...
It was simple hunger that drove Sunmu out of North Korea in 1998. A talented painter since childhood, he was assigned to a propaganda unit during compulsory military service and so impressed his superiors that that the normal 10-year tour of duty was cut to four years, and he...
"People worry his work might be viewed as communist propaganda because they only look at the surface meaning," says Yi Sun Ju, an independent curator in Seoul. "In fact, most of the interest in his work comes from abroad or from South Koreans who have lived overseas."
Unsurprisingly, Sunmu is headed overseas for his next show - a group exhibition at the New Society for Visual Arts (NGBK) gallery in Berlin on the theme of migration during the Cold War. The show is being held as part of the commemorations for the 20th anniversary of the fall of...
As expected, China promptly expressed its opposition to the visit. The day after Ma's announcement, China's Taiwan Affairs Bureau said, "No matter under what form or identity Dalai uses to enter Taiwan, we resolutely oppose this," according to the Xinhua news agency. China is sensitive to prominent overseas...