“There is no mosquito net in the world that is strong enough to keep out the idea of freedom" Michael Kirby, a former Chairman, UN COI-NORTH KOREA https://t.co/wRFNUliU96
K-drama has nothing on K-elections.
2 of tonight's most watched races in S.Korea, both looked lost, both came back. Han Dong-hoon just won his comeback bid in Busan. In Seoul, Oh Se-hoon has taken the lead for the first time with 94% counted.
Not over. But the plot twist is real.
이란 核이 북한보다 심각한 이유
루비오 국무장관이 2일 이란이 핵 보유하면 북한보다 더 심각하다고 지적. 이란과 북한은 겉으로 보면 많이 닮았다. 불량국가, 핵, 비밀경찰, 최고지도자, 반미 서사, ‘혁명’ 구호들...하지만 한 겹만 벗기면 전혀 다른 본색이 드러난다.
https://t.co/MCOd0c32ha
🇰🇵 North Korea has increased its use of the death penalty to target those consuming foreign media since the Covid-19 pandemic, with executions and sentencing increasing by nearly 117 per cent.
🔗: https://t.co/392ugxgtAa
🇰🇷 President Lee Jae-myung visited 🇻🇳 and posted on X hailing Ho Chi Minh as a "great leader." Just 3 days earlier, he denounced Syngman Rhee—Korea's founding father& independence leader as a dictator. You can't make this up. My Vietnamese-American friends must be baffled.
Cold peace can stop a war. It cannot free a people. This is managed status quo, not transformation. Without a serious plan for human dignity, this framework doesn't reduce risk — it freezes injustice and calls it stability.
After three decades of the same denuclearization framework, North Korea's arsenal has only grown. @CSISKoreaChair's @VictorDCha argues it's time to stop pretending the old framework can work and instead build a "cold peace."
More in @ForeignAffairs: https://t.co/4OEKQVkpUz
"Whether or not you vote for me, please use your vote. Democracy is precious. In North Korea there is no choice — here there is." My friend Timothy Cho is on the ballot in Stockport, UK. His words say everything.
Do not assume that the United States will tolerate endless anti-Americanism while continuing to provide security guarantees, as the Philippines learned in the early 1990s.
https://t.co/1cnxQMwMb8
Two US nationals were sentenced to a combined 200 months in prison for facilitating an IT worker scheme that generated millions in revenue for North Korea. The @FBI will continue to hold accountable those who defraud Americans to enrich our adversaries. 🔗 https://t.co/xc7yubNQeL
Michelle Steel, of California, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Republic of Korea.
Nominations Sent to the Senate – The White House https://t.co/6vUhZyjMdG
인권은 국경 따라 달라지지 않는다. 홀로코스트의 전형인 북한의 정치범수용소, 반인도 범죄, 강제송환 문제엔 침묵하고 다른 나라에만 엄격하다면, 누구든 “기준이 무엇인가”라고 묻게 된다. “내가 아프면 타인도 그만큼 아프다”는 말이 진정성을 얻으려면 DMZ부터 넘어야 하지 않을까. 2/2
이재명 대통령의 이스라엘 비판은 인권 차원에서 정당할 수 있다. 문제는 일관성이다. 그가 말한 “끊임없는 반인권적 반국제법적 행동”의 대표적 사례인 북한에는 침묵하면서 이스라엘만 비판한다면, 그 발언은 보편적 인권의 언어가 아니라 선택적 인권의 언어로 들릴 수밖에 없다.1/2
<끊임없는 반인권적 반국제법적 행동으로 고통받고 힘들어하는 전 세계인들의 지적을 한번쯤은 되돌아볼 만도 한데 실망입니다.
내가 아프면 타인도 그만큼 아픕니다.
나의 필요 때문에 누군가 고통받으면 미안한 것이 인지상정입니다.
아닌 밤중에 홍두깨라고 아무 잘못없는 우리 국민들께서 뜬금없이 겪고 있는 이 엄청난 고통과 국가적 어려움을 지켜보는 마음이 매우 불편합니다.
보편적 인권과 대한민국의 국익을 위해 할 수 있는 일을 더 열심히 찾아봐야겠습니다.>
이스라엘, ‘전시 살해=유대인 학살’ 李대통령 발언에 “용납 못해” https://t.co/R9OOeMDSr3
A newly restored 136-year-old scroll letter by Rosetta Sherwood Hall, unveiled today, reveals a family whose faith was not spoken but walked — toward the sick, the blind, the forgotten. Six Halls now rest side by side at Yanghwajin Cemetery, Seoul. https://t.co/607ay9QUSU
In 1890, a 25-year-old American doctor sailed to Korea&never truly left, not after losing her husband, her daughter,& her citizenship. Her son returned as a doctor, built Korea's first TB sanatorium& X-mas Seals, was expelled by Japan& still chose to be buried on Korean soil.1/2
.@dex_eve & I have a new piece out w/ @SurvivalEditors. In 2024, South Korea secretly deployed more than 300 KTSSM missiles at soft, fixed sites--suggesting that, in a crisis, Seoul may strike first & giving Pyongyang 300 reasons to beat them to it.
https://t.co/UGPqqqmKvH
He entered a Buddhist monastery at 16. He counseled soldiers as a military chaplain. Last week, Yale named him Head of Morse College.
Hwansoo Kim made North Korea feel like a human story, not a policy problem.
https://t.co/VgCp15wTZ6