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Then came Kim's strange confessional meeting with Japan's Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi in September. Although U.S. envoys by then had briefed Koizumi on the CIA discovery, it's unclear how hard he pressed Kim on the issue. The Korean leader one-upped his counterpart by apologizing for kidnapping 13 Japanese citizens decades ago to train North Korean spies. He perhaps hoped the startling act of contrition would open the way to more aid from Japan. Koizumi said last week he would keep working to normalize relations...
...news stunned lawmakers, many of whom were in the middle of a budget debate when the murder took place. "The use of violence to silence politicians is utterly unforgivable," said Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi. "I am incredibly outraged." Police, however, caution that the motive for the murder remains unclear. As the outspoken head of a Democratic Party of Japan anti-corruption committee known as the "G-Man Squad," Ishii fashioned himself as Japan's Eliot Ness. Ironically, he may have been best known for his 2000 campaign to ban the ultraviolent Japanese teen movie Battle Royale. Murder, it seems, doesn...
...Blacklisting by Google continues long after,” said Edelman, adding that it is unclear how often, if ever, Google re-examines filtered sites...
...refused to engage those same warlords militarily when the food shipments were violently seized. In 1995, when Serb militants attacked Srebrenica, a safe zone for refugees, U.N. blue helmets did not engage militarily to protect the refugees. Instead, the U.N. mission’s lack of communications and an unclear mandate allowed the Serbs to carry out the largest civilian massacre in Europe since World War II. For the U.N., the general rule seems to be inaction in preventing and ending human rights atrocities. Inaction marks the U.N. even when its own economic and social humanitarian projects become unenforceable...
Additionally, the U.N. has political motives in deciding when and where to intervene. Unlike the unambiguous political motives of single nations, the U.N.’s motivations are conglomerations of all states involved in the missions. It is unclear, for instance, if a U.N., Arab-dominated humanitarian aid mission to the Occupied Territories of the Middle East is really aimed at clothing, educating and feeding refugees or if it is there to promulgate anti-Israeli propaganda. Because of these mixed motives, more U.N.-based humanitarian aid projects exist in places like the Occupied Territories and other geopolitical hotspots while...