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By Michael Allen on January 26, 2010
Hugo Chavez’s latest assault on Venezuela’s independent media and propaganda and intimidation in the run-up to Sri Lanka’s presidential election feature in the latest media round-up from the Center for International Media Assistance.
CIMA, an initiative of the National Endowment for Democracy, also highlights stories detailing how nimble agencies (including NED grantees) smuggle news from North [read full story]
Posted in Democracy assistance, Hat tip: Center for International Media Assistance., Human rights, freedom of expression, media | Tagged Center for International Media Assistance, National Endowment for Democracy, north korea |
By Michael Allen on July 20, 2009
“Tibetans have the Dalai Lama and Richard Gere, Burmese have Aung San Suu Kyi, Darfurians have Mia Farrow and George Clooney,” notes human rights activist Suzanne Scholte. “North Koreans have no one like that.”
The torments of life in North Korea’s gulag are documented in this must-read article in The Washington Post:
Before guards shoot prisoners [read full story]
Posted in Asia, Closed societies, Democracy assistance, Human rights, Must Read, National Endowment for Democracy, corruption, dissidents, north korea | Tagged Aung San Suu Kyi, Broadcasting Board of Governors, Carl Gershman, Dalai Lama, George Clooney, Mia Farrow, National Endowment for Democracy, north korea, North Korean defectors, Pyongyang, Richard Gere, Rimjingang |
By Michael Allen on May 28, 2009
Kim Jong-Il combines Stalinist dictatorship with narcissistic personality
North Korea’s nuclear test and missile launchings have been widely condemned throughout the international community. Even by the regime’s friends in China.
But Greg Sheridan makes the case that Beijing was only going through the motions. He notes that no Chinese diplomat joined US, Japanese and South Korean [read full story]
Posted in Asia, Human rights, foreign policy, north korea | Tagged Human rights, north korea, Realism |
By Michael Allen on April 28, 2009
North Korea’s decision to restart its nuclear program and the launch of a ballistic missile capable of reaching the United States have been widely interpreted as sending a signal to the Obama administration. But other observers suggest that the regime’s actions are more likely to reflect internal tensions rather than international grandstanding.
North Korea “has historically [read full story]
Posted in Asia, Failed states, Human rights, authoritarianism, dictatorships | Tagged constructive engagement, north korea, regime change, World Movement for Democracy |
By Michael Allen on March 23, 2009
Shin Dong-hyuk was born in North Korea’s gulag and spent his first 23 years in Political Prisoners’ Camp No 14. It was his misfortune to assume at birth his family’s collective guilt for aiding South Korea during the peninsula’s civil war over half a century ago.
“Shin is the only man known to have escaped from [read full story]
Posted in Asia, Human rights, National Endowment for Democracy | Tagged Asia, Human rights, National Endowment for Democracy, north korea |
By Michael Allen on December 11, 2008
The Washington Post carries today’s must-read article, recounting the ordeal of former North Korean political prisoner Shin Dong-hyuk. The only known prisoner to escape from the Stalinist regime’s gulag, Shin was the victim of the most perverse form of guilt-by-association:
An unforgettable — almost unfathomable — chapter of that story is about the execution of his [read full story]
Posted in Asia, Must Read | Tagged Asia, gulag, Must Read, north korea |
By Michael Allen on October 9, 2008
Dissident North Korean pianist Cheol Woong Kim played at the U.S. State Department this week at a recital designed to highlight North Korean human rights abuses without embarrassing Pyongyang and undermining fragile nuclear negotiations.
Kim escaped to China twice, only to be forcibly repatriated before finally escaping to South Korea in 2003. “The regime’s human rights [read full story]
Posted in Asia, Human rights, Regions, dictatorships, dissidents | Tagged Cheol Woong Kim, dictatorships, dissidents, north korea |
By Michael Allen on September 10, 2008
Kim Jong-il’s absence from celebrations of the 60th anniversary of the country’s founding have triggered speculation about the North Korean leader’s health – South Korean intelligence sources suggest he had a heart stroke – and the implications of his succession.
“The possibility of Kim Jong Il moving from the scene is a very positive development,” said [read full story]
Posted in Asia, Human rights, dictatorships | Tagged north korea |
By DemDigest on August 22, 2008
Sometimes a regime’s propaganda says more about its venal and paranoid state than a thousand words of analysis.
Posted in Asia, Regions | Tagged north korea |
By Michael Allen on July 15, 2008
Economic engagement with the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea should be a “bottom-up” process, says human rights activist David Hawk, engaging the Korean diaspora, exploiting remittances and developing “rights-based” forms of economic development.
North Korea has the least marketized and least monetized economy in recent history, save for Pol Pot’s Cambodia, notes Hawk, a Reagan-Fascell Democracy [read full story]
Posted in Regions | Tagged north korea |
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