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Monthly Archives: June 2009
Trying to Create A “Women Friendly Seoul”
» by GI Korea June 21st, 2009 at 2:34 am » Comments (8)
Seoul is in the process of trying to make the city safer for women: Women in Seoul may soon have the luxury of pulling into parking spots marked with bright pink ...more »North Korean Soccer Team Keeps Low Profile at Asian Youth Games
» by GI Korea June 20th, 2009 at 11:42 pm » Comments (1)
It looks like North Korea is still the Hermit Kingdom even while participating in the Asian Youth Games: If anyone expected their under-15 football team here for the inaugural Asian Youth ...more »Romanian Woman Waiting for 47 Years for Her North Korean Husband
» by GI Korea June 20th, 2009 at 8:00 pm » Comments (0)
Her is an unusual story involing a Romanian woman waiting for decades to be reunited with her North Korean husband: Georgeta Mircioiu, a 72-year old living in the Romanian capital Bucharest, ...more »Blue House Slams PD Diary Over “Freedom of the Press” Claims
» by GI Korea June 20th, 2009 at 3:07 pm » Comments (2)
I have a hard time having any sympathy for the people over at PD Diary that intentionally broadcasted fraudulent information for political purposes last year: Blue House spokesman Lee Dong-kwan fired ...more »Picture of the Day: The Kang Nam I
» by GI Korea June 20th, 2009 at 1:01 pm » Comments (3)
[caption id="attachment_14265" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="U.S. Navy yesterday was tracking a North Korean cargo vessel, the Kang Nam I, shown here in an Oct. 24, 2006 file photo, suspected of carrying ...more »French Freezer Baby Killer Sentenced to Eight Years, Could Be Out In One
» by GI Korea June 20th, 2009 at 10:01 am » Comments (2)
It is amazing that someone could kill three of her children and get such a light sentence: A French woman who admitted killing three of her own babies, burning one corpse ...more »Ban On Military Recruiters Overturned By Court
» by GI Korea June 19th, 2009 at 7:36 pm » Comments (3)
The far left have lost another battle against military recruiters: Without fanfare, a federal judge in Oakland today threw out voter-approved laws in two upper Northern California cities barring military recruiters ...more »A Look At North Korea’s Chemical Weapons
» by GI Korea June 19th, 2009 at 3:46 pm » Comments (7)
Here is why the average South Korean could care less about getting nuked: Amid all of the concern about North Korea's nuclear program, experts are warning that its stockpile of chemical ...more »Picture of the Day: Journalists At the DMZ
» by GI Korea June 19th, 2009 at 1:00 pm » Comments (1)
[caption id="attachment_14215" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Foreign journalists look at the demilitarized zone through iron fences at an observatory in Yeoncheon, Gyeonggi, yesterday on a tour program sponsored by the Korean government. ...more »Bradley K. Martin Advocates for Al Gore Taking Responsibility for Captured Journalists
» by GI Korea June 19th, 2009 at 10:19 am » Comments (14)
Noted journalist Bradley K. Martin who has written much about North Korea has written an interesting article in regards to the Laura Ling and Euna Lee case: Perhaps it is useful ...more »
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