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	Making Sense of the North Korean Crisis 12 questions with Gavan McCormack by Stephen R. Shalom & Mark Selden
		North Korea is a fossilized encapsulation of the 20th century: the legacies of colonialism, imperialist interventions, externally imposed division of the country, and incorporation in the Cold War, all remain unresolved.
		North Korean "face" is an important part of the security equation and a sympathy for the pain and the sense of justice that drive it, however perverted, will be needed for security goals to be met.
		North Korea is essentially a Korean problem and South Korea must assume a central role in negotiations and plans for the future because its people must after all live with their northern compatriots.
	www.thirdworldtraveler.com /Asia/MakingSense_NKoreaCrisis.html (5299 words)

	Regional Implications of the Changing Nuclear Equation on the Korean Peninsula
		North Korea's programs for nuclear weapons, and the means to deliver them at increasingly longer range, pose a serious regional and a global threat.
		North Korea has so far rejected a multilateral approach, but we do not believe this is its last word or its final position.
		North Korean provocations are disturbing, but they cannot be permitted to yield gains to North Korea.
	www.state.gov /p/eap/rls/rm/2003/18661.htm (2026 words)

	Enigma of the Land of Morning Calm: Korean Shrimp or Roaring Tiger? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		While the western and southern slopes of the Korean peninsula are gentle with various types of plains, low hills, and basins, almost seventy percent of the peninsula is covered with hills and mountains, especially in the northern and eastern parts of Korea.
		The Koreans like to say that their peninsula is like "a small shrimp surrounded by big whales." Indeed, the Korean peninsula is 102 times smaller than the territory of Russia and 44 times smaller than that of China.
		Tenth, when the Korean peninsula did become an object of confrontation among neighboring great powers, it was mainly due to expansionist aspirations of an ascending great power, aimed at establishing her unconditional domination in Korea (preferably in the form of a protectorate).
	www.brookings.edu /fp/cnaps/papers/2000_mansourov.htm (3366 words)

	The North Korean Nuclear Crisis: Regional Perspectives
		Although North Korea handed over the cremated remains of Yokoda Megumi to her family in November 2004, the remains were later found false after a series of rigorous tests performed by Japanese authorities.
		The prolongation of the North Korean nuclear issue will also serve as a litmus test that determines whether the six-party talks would be able to bring about a peaceful resolution of the pending nuclear issue as well as the stability in the Northeast Asian region.
		North Korea acknowledged a total of 15 Japanese abductees, of who five were confirmed alive and other ten were either dead or missing.
	northkorea.ssrc.org /Yun (4947 words)

	Asia Times Online :: Japan News and Japanese Business and Economy
		Japan and North Korea are talking to each other, not about one another, after more than three years of bad-mouthing and name-calling, but so far the two have little to show for their efforts.
		Realistically, the abductions ceased to be an issue for Pyongyang since in 2002 after admitting officially to having kidnapped Japanese citizens in the 1970s and 1980s to "employ" them as "Japanese language instructors" for North Korean spies.
		North Korea rejected that argument, resulting in the sides failing to agree on an economic cooperation formula presented by Tokyo to the diplomatic normalization panel.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Japan/HB08Dh03.html (1337 words)

	MOFA: Outline and Background of Abduction Cases of Japanese Nationals by North Korea
		Japanese police announced in May 1991 that they had reached the decision on the basis of their investigation there was a very high probability that the Japanese language teacher mentioned by Kim Hyon Hui was a Japanese woman from Saitama Prefecture who had been listed missing.
		In June 1998, a spokesman for the North Korean Red Cross announced that as a result of its investigation, none of the 10 missing Japanese nationals whom Japanese law-enforcement authorities suspect had been taken to North Korea through the seven suspected abduction cases were found to be residing in North Korea.
		On 22 March, the North Korean Red Cross made a statement that North Korea had "never kidnapped or abducted her to North Korea." It also said it had decided to "continue the investigation into the 'missing persons'," adding that it was ready to hold the Japan-North Korea Red Cross Talks.
	www.mofa.go.jp /region/asia-paci/n_korea/abduct.html (1359 words)

	The Epoch Times \| Japan Increases Tough Rhetoric on North Korean Sanctions
		Japanese government officials on Thursday indicated they are considering taking measures against North Korea for the lack of progress on accounting for Japanese citizens kidnapped by agents of the North several decades ago.
		Japanese media report that several top officials in the Koizumi government remain reluctant to impose sanctions, which North Korea has previously stated would be tantamount to a declaration of war.
		North Korea, in 2003, admitted it abducted 13 Japanese in the 1970s and 1980s to help train its spies.
	www.theepochtimes.com /news/5-1-27/26064.html (304 words)

	Making Sense of the Korean Crisis: An Interview (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		After it, North Korea’s demand for apology and compensation for colonialism was the major sticking point.Only when enfeebled to the point of desperation by economic crisis in the 1990s did it agree to set that demand aside.
		Without the “North Korean threat”—whether resolved peacefully or otherwise—Washington strategists would have to think of some new justification for the bases in Japan and South Korea and for the massively expensive anti-missile system soon to be constructed in the region.
		The Kim Jong Il regime in North Korea is indefensible, but violent intervention to change it is more likely to lead to the sort of chaos that engulfs Iraq and Afghanistan than to a resolution of problems that, in the last resort, only the Korean people, north and south, can solve.
	www.japanfocus.org /products/topdf/2095 (5313 words)

	North Korean abductions of Japanese - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The North Korean abductions of Japanese refers to the abduction of many Japanese citizens from Japan by agents of the North Korean government during a period of six years from 1977 to 1983.
		The proposal condemns North Korea of "systematic humanitarian violations", and mentions the abduction issue, the existence of concentration camps and the forced return of North Korean refugees to the homeland.
		North Korea claims that this was an act of asylum by the pilot, but it is considered to be another case of abduction.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/North_Korean_abductions_of_Japanese (2497 words)

	Crosswalk.com - Outlook for Japan-North Korea Ties Dismal
		Japanese government officials told the leading Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper this week that any nuclear test would result in a series of phased sanctions, including restrictions on the exchange of people between the two countries.
		Koizumi went to Pyongyang seeking information on a dozen Japanese who disappeared in the late 1970s and early 1980s in Japan and Europe, and whom the government believed were abducted to teach Japanese language and culture at North Korean spy schools.
		Remittances from ethnic Koreans in Japan are an important source of foreign currency for the North, amounting to tens of millions of dollars a year at least, according to experts.
	www.crosswalk.com /news/1220349.html (1252 words)

	washingtonpost.com: U.S., North Korea Don't Bend on Arms
		The talks involving North and South Korea, the United States, Japan, China and Russia are aimed at defusing a standoff that began in October when the Bush administration announced that North Korean negotiators had revealed the existence of a nuclear weapons program.
		North Korea got that meeting this afternoon when, following the plenary session, U.S. negotiators huddled with their North Korean counterparts in a corner of a large room at the Diaoyutai State Guest House in western Beijing, participants at the talks said.
		While it is talking with North Korea in Beijing, the Bush administration is leading the Proliferation Security Initiative, a coalition of 11 nations that would seek to weave a naval net around North Korea to stop it from exporting any weapons of mass destruction or related technology.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A56296-2003Aug27?language=printer (1106 words)

	onefreekorea: House Concurrent Resolution 168, Condemning North Korean Abductions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Whereas the abduction policy of North Korea has been integral to its espionage and terrorist activities, and abductees have been kidnapped to work as spies, to train North Korean agents in language, accents, and culture, and to steal identities, as in the case of Mr.
		Whereas many victims of North Korean abduction have been seized during terrorist attacks, as in the hijacking of South Korean planes in 1958 and 1969, and, decades later, Pyongyang continues to hold twelve passengers of a hijacked Korean Air flight, including passenger Mr.
		Whereas North Korean agents kidnapped thirteen-year-old Megumi Yokota, as she was walking home from school, and subsequently reported that she married and had a daughter in North Korea before committing suicide in 1993, and that Megumi's daughter remains there separated from her family in Japan;
	freekorea.blogspot.com /2001/06/house-concurrent-resolution-168.html (1485 words)

	A New Era for the Korean Peninsula (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		North Korea is extending diplomatic feelers in many directions, but the approach is not scattershot.
		North Korea, increasingly dependent on foreign aid, is still gripped by a food crisis and a severe energy shortage.
		North Korea has agreed to all U.S. demands on this issue, except for the repatriation of Red Army members responsible for hijacking a Japanese airliner in 1970.
	www.fpif.org /briefs/vol5/v5n18korea_body.html (2706 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Asia-Pacific \| Country profiles \| Timeline: North Korea
		North Korea agrees to freeze nuclear programme in return for $5bn worth of free fuel and two nuclear reactors.
		South Korea captures North Korean mini-submarine in its waters.
		One hundred North Koreans meet their relatives in the South in a highly-charged, emotional reunion.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/asia-pacific/1132268.stm?ls (1032 words)

	Nuclear Poker
		(North Korea stands to receive upwards of $1 billion from Japan as war reparations upon establishment of diplomatic relations.) Tokyo also wants to end brazen North Korean espionage and methamphetamine smuggling into Japan as well.
		With North Korea teetering on the edge of collapse, regime survival is job No. 1 for Kim Jong Il.
		The Bush administration is understandably skeptical about North Korea living up to its obligations: We bought promises from Pyongyang under the Clinton administration, only to discover North Korean perfidy (again) last year.
	www.heritage.org /Press/Commentary/ed082603a.cfm (719 words)

	Why North Korea kidnapped Japanese citizens. - By Brendan I. Koerner - Slate Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		At a six-nation summit on North Korea's nuclear ambitions, Japan is pressing Kim Jong-il's government for more info on the fates of the Japanese abductees who were spirited away to Pyongyang during the Cold War.
		At least one alleged kidnapper claims that several women were abducted to become wives for a group of North Korea-based Japanese terrorists, on the lam after a 1970 Japan Airlines hijacking.
		North Korea has stated that only five of the abductees are still alive; all five have returned to Japan within the past 12 months and are demanding that the families they left behind in North Korea be released, too.
	www.slate.com /id/2087627 (1002 words)

	Japanese Socialist Party Sends North Korea A Protest Letter Over Abductions
		In an apparent move to denounce the abductions of Japanese by North Korean agents, the Social Democratic Party on Thursday sent a letter of protest to North Korea's Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), which the SDP claims has long been an ally, SDP sources said.
		While the main objective of the committee is to examine the past relationship between the SDP and the WPK and to map out future exchanges, observers said the Friday meeting gave the impression the participants had failed to act on this objective.
		What this story doesn't really stress is that the Socialist Party in Japan and the North Koreans have been joined at the hip for many many years and that the Socialists have, at every opportunity, denounced anything related to the abductions as pro-U.S. propaganda.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/770560/posts (1114 words)

	Correspondents Report - North Korean abductions still cloud relations with Japan
		In the late 1970s and early 1980s, North Korea abducted a number of Japanese citizens to help train its spies in Japanese language and culture.
		Confirmation that Japanese citizens had been abducted came in an historic summit in Pyongyang in 2002, between North Korean leader Kim Jong Il and Japan's Prime Minister, Junichiro Koizumi.
		North Korea says they are dead, while Japan is not convinced.
	www.abc.net.au /correspondents/content/2006/s1578039.htm (548 words)

	Abduction \| \| Dictionary & Translation by Babylon
		Abduction phenomenon ("alien abduction"), an umbrella term used to describe a number of hypotheses, claims or assertions stating that extraterrestrial creatures kidnap individuals
		North Korean abductions of Japanese or North Korean abductions of South Koreans, a policy of abduction during the 1970s and 1980s pursued by the North Korean government
		Abduction (novel), a 2000 novel by novelist Robin Cook.
	www.babylon.com /definition/Abduction/All (418 words)

	US warns North Korea not to delay crisis talks of Japan abductions
		The United States on Tuesday warned North Korea not to delay or postpone six-nation nuclear crisis talks, after Pyongyang balked at Japan's bid to keep the Stalinist state's abduction of its nationals on the agenda.
		Bolton's remarks followed a warning by North Korea that Japan was not qualified to take part in the six-nation talks because it wanted to raise the abductions, an issue of prime political importance in Tokyo.
		Tokyo has insisted that the abduction issue should be "comprehensively" settled along with the nuclear issue and the problem of North Korea's missile development and exports.
	www.spacewar.com /2003/031202200656.5poynn9a.html (376 words)

	WHDH-TV - National News - Bush, Koizumi warn North Korea not to launch missile
		But North Korea's reported preparations to test-fire a ballistic missile that could reach the United States was a major focus.
		Referring to North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, Bush said: "He has an obligation, it seems like to me and to the prime minister, that there be a full briefing to those of us who are concerned about this issue as to what his intentions are."
		Bush called a visit to his office by the mother of a Japanese girl kidnapped by North Korea one of the most touching moments of his presidency.
	www3.whdh.com /news/articles/national/BO21880 (1045 words)

	USNews.com: North Korea's nuclear ambitions could trigger an arms race in Asia
		And North Korea's track record of selling missiles to countries such as Pakistan and Yemen raises an even more chilling prospect: the world's first department store for nukes, with terrorists and rogue states as potential hard-currency customers.
		China may be the key: North Korea depends on China for food and fuel, but Beijing has been reluctant to squeeze Pyongyang, fearing chaos, mass refugee flows, and a U.S. presence on its border if the North collapses.
		The Japanese public was enraged by revelations last fall of North Korean abductions of Japanese.
	www.usnews.com /usnews/news/articles/030127/27korea_2.htm (597 words)

	Japanese police on alert -DAWN - International; October 13, 2006
		Japan's police chief warned that the sanctions could trigger subversion inside the country by North Korean agents.
		Relations have long been tense between the countries due in part to North Korean agents' abductions of Japanese nationals in the 1970s and 1980s.
		North Korea in 1998 fired a missile over Japan's main island, leading Tokyo to team up with the United States to develop a missile shield.
	www.dawn.com /2006/10/13/int9.htm (238 words)

	Dec. 3, 2005 Seminar on the Hague Convention and International Child Abductions, Embassy of Canada, Tokyo, Japan
		On January 26, 2004 CRC of Japan, together with a coalition of Japanese and non-Japanese parents' groups, submitted a report to the United Nations regarding Japan's deficiencies in protecting the rights of children of divorce and other forms of parental separation.
		During that conference CRC of Japan focused attention on the case of Yamila Castilian, whose daughter was abducted from Cuba to Japan by her Japanese husband at that time.
		The term abduction is very much in the Japanese public dialog right now because of the North Korean abductions of Japanese citizens.
	www.geocities.com /crcjapan/dec03r.html (1310 words)

	US warns North Korea not to delay crisis talks over Japan abductions
		Bolton has a fiery relationship with North Korea, and was once branded "human scum" and a "bloodsucker" by its official media after making pointed criticisms of life in the Stalinist state.
		The State Department said Tuesday that its North Korea pointman, James Kelly would meet counterparts from South Korea and Japan later this week to refine strategy for the talks.
		South Korean deputy foreign minister Lee Lee Soo Hyuck and Japan's director general of the foreign ministry Mitoji Yabunaka will join Kelly for the December 4 to 6 talks.
	www.spacewar.com /2003/031202202153.9q4yfsj5.html (512 words)

	Japan Increases Tough Rhetoric on North Korean Sanctions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Japan is giving its clearest signal yet that it might impose economic sanctions against North Korea.
		Aizawa says North Korea's responses have been insincere, thus Japan has no choice but to consider more specific and tougher measures against Pyongyang.
		There also appears to be concern among some government officials here that imposing sanctions would give North Korea another excuse to further delay or pull out of stalled multi-nation talks on Pyongyang's nuclear weapons programs.
	quickstart.clari.net /voa/art/au/2005-01-27-voa3.html (310 words)

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