If Ambassador Hill truly wants a healthy US-Korean relationship, he will need to understand how Koreans want to determine their future according to their own desires.
힐 대사가 진정으로 건강한 한-미 관계를 바란다면, 한국민이 그들의 미래를 자신의 뜻에 따라 결정하고자 하는 뜻을 바로 이해해야 할 것이다.
Mr. Koizumi's name now comes up at virtually every stop on the Bush campaign. The president always stops to explain to his crowds which job Mr. Koizumi holds, just in case the citizens of Battle Creek, Mich., or Aurora, Calif., don't wake up every morning worrying about what's going on in the Japanese Diet.The differences between Korea and Japan so great right now that my theory wouldn't be easy to apply, but every once in a while I've wondered if the US doesn't sometimes respect its enemies more than it does the countries it has helped.
But Mr. Bush doesn't invoke Mr. Koizumi to talk much about Japan policy, a subject in which he has rarely demonstrated intense interest. Instead, he uses him as an object lesson on what might go right in Iraq — if we wait long enough.
"We're friends," Mr. Bush says, perhaps seeking to dispel the notion that he doesn't have many of those around the world....
"I can't understand how Korea, which contributed 3,600 troops, could have been excluded from the list as Bush read off the names of eight countries," Park complained, adding, "After thanking the 8 countries, Bush then mentioned thanks to 'other countries.'"That from a translated article at OhmyNews, by the one and only Park Hyung Sook, who covers the National Assembly.
It turns out that the venue has been changed from Vinyl Underground to Soultrane in/near Pusan National University. If anyone can provide a map or a link to a map, that would be great, but there is some information at www.pusanweb.com/music/index.htm.
Apparently you go to Pusan National University (there's a subway station there), go out the university and make the first left and go "three blocks or so." You turn right when you see Crossroads Bar on the left. Soul Trane is down on the right next to a chicken joint.
The reason for the change is that there was a previous commitment at Vinyl Underground, but this place is supposed to be better.
The fact that a big explosion in a mountainous area of North Korea close to the Chinese border attracts the whole world's attention and incites all sorts of guesses and analysis speaks of how closed North Korean society is and how it lacks transparency. The way certain media approach the North with a biased attitude, being prejudiced and bringing up suspicions even about legitimate North Korean claims or reasoned protests, often contributes to a further inflation of the problem. Still, there are many cases when the problem is inherent with North Korean society. Because it has its curtains closed tight and because it does not share the perceptions and norms universal to the international community, it gets misunderstood even when it doesn't have to be.
I apologize for the blog down time this weekend. My web hoster apparently suffered a major failure that took some time to repair. Everything appears to be working now, and I got what appears to be a free six months usage for the trouble, which was nice.However, good friend DDA tells me he is still unable to access Marmot.
농가의 최대 버팀목이었던 추곡수매제도 사라질 운명에 놓여 있다. 쌀값은 떨어지고, 농민의 안정적 소득기반이 사라지는 것을 의미한다. 당국은 물론 수매제를 폐지하더라도 “다른 제도를 통해 농가 소득을 보전할 수 있도록 대책을 세우겠다”고 약속하고 있다. 그러나 농민들은 이를 신뢰하지 않는다. 농민들은 당국의 ‘철학 빈곤’을 농업문제의 뿌리로 인식하고 있는 터다. 거기서 근본적인 장기대책이 나올 리 없다는 점도 농민들이 절망하는 이유다. 농산품을 상품으로 여기는 한, 한국 농업의 활로가 열리겠는가. 농업 경쟁력은 기본적으로 너른 땅에서 비롯되기 때문이다.Lets do a quickie on those last two sentences. There will be no way out for Korean agriculture as long as farm products are thought of as commodities/market products, because agricultural competitiveness basically comes from having spacious land to work with.
[Typhoon] Chaba brought more than just heavy winds and rains to Guam; the storm also brought a stranded North Korean vessel to the island. The Ajman 2 and her crew of eleven were stranded off the coast of Guam on Saturday needing fuel. The vessel belongs to the United Arab Emirates, but is flag shipped under the North Korean government and the crewmembers are Romanian, Indian and Filipino.There's only one thing worse than getting stuck in a supertyphoon or running out of fuel, namely running out of fuel in a supertyphoon. Maybe that's what you get for putting your ship under a North Korean flag.
Port Authority acting spokesperson Josette Javallosa says the Ajman 2 was allowed into the Port before the storm to refuel. When Chaba intensified, the vessel began tearing up the pier, so Port Authority personnel dragged the boat further out. With the wind and high seas the vessel was beached on the shore.
The largest daily newspaper in South Korea has noted that President Bush failed to mention the country while listing the names of those that have assisted the U.S.-led efforts in Afghanistan and Iraq.It is especially significant that it was that Chosun Ilbo was the first to notice.
Chosun Ilbo reported on Mr. Bush's nomination acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention Thursday night. The newspaper pointed out that Mr. Bush named Japan and Australia among those nations that have sent troops, but left out South Korea.
It did not openly criticize the U.S. president for his omission.
Earlier this year, South Korea began sending 3,000 troops to Iraq, making it the third-largest coalition partner, after the United States and Britain. In June, a South Korean soldier was captured and beheaded by Iraqi militants, prompting calls by South Koreans to pull out of the coalition.
Just as we should not tolerate nuclear weapons programs in North Korea, we shouldn't be developing nuclear weapons either...
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The reason we call on the North to give up its nuclear programs is because we believe a Korean peninsula without nukes is what would be best for the Korean nation now and in the future. There's no way the US or the other nuclear powers will act indifferent if the North acquires nuclear weapons, and even if it does manage to possess such weapons, it needs to realize that having them won't save its population from starvation.
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