Protesting beyond the streets and into the sky
Hoping to reach out to the North Korean population, South Korean activists soldiered past a government ban and successfully sent thousands of leaflets and CDs denouncing Pyongyang into North Korea—via balloons. Similar protests in the past were met with hostility from the North but after they recently threatened to retaliate with military force, the South closed off areas […]
New negotiations between North and South Korea
After years of tension between North and South Korea, the governments will resume dialogue to discuss South Korea’s plan to provide humanitarian aid to the North. Brought on after flooding and typhoons severly damaged regions of North Korea, the South Korean Red Cross Society first offered aid last week. For the first time in two years, North Korea has decided to accept aid from the […]
Vaclav Havel and Kim Jong-Il: the 20th century’s best and worst
Yesterday, December 18, 2011, representatives of the best and the worst of the 20th-century’s leaders died: Vaclav Havel and Kim Jong-il. One was Vaclav Havel, former president of the Czech Republic and the man who, after several stints in Communist prisons, led Czechoslovakia’s revolt against the Soviet Union in 1989. The revolt is known as […]