<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><HTML><BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"><FONT BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 PTSIZE=12 FAMILY="SERIF" FACE="Times New Roman" LANG="0">Sorry for the short notice. But Listmembers in the UK,<BR>
or with access to BBC2 TV, might be interested in<BR>
the item below. (Others, I think, can in principle<BR>
watch the programme via the Web, presumably after<BR>
the event, if your computer is up to it.)<BR>
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For those who don't want to believe this kind of thing<BR>
(wouldn't we all?), it's worth pointing out that the <BR>
reporter, Olenka Frenkiel, has no ideological axe to grind.<BR>
She has also been a gadfly in Israel over the Mordechai Vanunu <BR>
case (Israel's harshly punished nuclear whistle-blower).<BR>
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I've seen the script of this interview. After doubts were<BR>
expressed over the veracity of earlier reports, Ms Frenkiel<BR>
went back to Seoul and conducted further interviews.<BR>
Independent witnesses, unknown to each other, corroborated the story.<BR>
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Despite spluttering from Pyongyang, and handwringing in Seoul <BR>
at the risk of darkening sunshine - ditto those inconvenient 460 <BR>
refugees from Vietnam - I fear there is a case to answer here. <BR>
But please watch the programme, and judge for yourself.<BR>
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Aidan FC<BR>
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AIDAN FOSTER-CARTER<BR>
Honorary Senior Research Fellow in Sociology & Modern Korea, Leeds University <BR>
17 Birklands Road, Shipley, West Yorkshire, BD18 3BY, UK <BR>
tel: +44(0) 1274 588586 mobile: +44(0) 7970 741307 <BR>
fax: +44(0) 1274 773663 ISDN: +44(0) 1274 589280<BR>
Email: afostercarter@aol.com website: www.aidanfc.net<BR>
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/3931039.stm<BR>
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<B>Presented by Martha Kearney.</B> <BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 PTSIZE=12 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">Tonight we hear a terrible tale from a modern day Dr Mengele. A North Korean scientist says he used experimental chemical weapons on prisoners and stood there taking notes while they died in agony. Dr Kim tells us: "The purpose of this experiment was to determine how long it takes for a human being to die - we wanted to determine how much gas was necessary to annihilate the whole city of Seoul." I will be putting this new evidence of North Korea's contempt for life and use of chemical weapons to Foreign Office minister Bill Rammell and asking why is it right for us to intervene against Saddam Hussein but not against Kim Jong-Il? <BR>
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And in Boston Kirsty Wark will be live with the Democrats, asking what Kerry needs to do to if he doesn't want to look stupid on the economy. She'll be joined by corporate guru Jack Welch and the author of "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right" - Al Franken. <BR>
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