<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">Listmembers who don't already know may like to be aware<BR>
of two more newish news resources on North Korea,<BR>
plus the apparent waning of a third.<BR>
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1. </FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=4 PTSIZE=14 FAMILY="SERIF" FACE="Times New Roman" LANG="0"><B>www.northkoreatimes.com</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 PTSIZE=12 FAMILY="SERIF" FACE="Times New Roman" LANG="0"> </B>will, if you sign up <BR>
(no charge), email you daily DPRK-related headlines<BR>
It's a bit hit and miss, and the links don't always work.<BR>
I suspect it's computer-generated, as it seems to be part<BR>
of a whole family of sites. (The South Korea equivalent<BR>
www.southkoreatimes.com is snazzier.) <BR>
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Though not a patch on proper sites, like Nautilus or the <BR>
indispensable NKZone, this can serve as a useful alert. <BR>
(NKZone used to send alerts - but no longer, it seems.)<BR>
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2. Daily headlines are also one of the services offered by<BR>
the similarly named but quite unrelated </FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=4 PTSIZE=14 FAMILY="SERIF" FACE="Times New Roman" LANG="0"><B>www.nk-news.net</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 PTSIZE=12 FAMILY="SERIF" FACE="Times New Roman" LANG="0"></B><BR>
This is a new dedicated North Korea site, technically excellent,<BR>
which manages both to be extremely useful and a lot of fun.<BR>
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</B>For anyone who has ever chafed at the lack of a search function<BR>
on KCNA (www.kcna.co.jp), this lacuna has now been filled<BR>
- not by the comrades themselves, but by a web designer in<BR>
California as an exercise in his craft. ( He explains, thoughtfully, at<BR>
http://www.nk-news.net/about/site_history.php )<BR>
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For anyone put off (but why be?) by the cheerful irreverence - <BR>
site features include a Random Insult Generator, with suggestions<BR>
like "human scum" (24 entries) or "resolutely smash" (48) to get you started - <BR>
this is nonetheless a serious research tool, going right back to 1996.<BR>
Thus one of my own hobbyhorses, "land rezoning", yields 93 entries.<BR>
There are 43 for catfish, 26 for ostrich; and so on. Other useful<BR>
features include a Gregorian - Juche era calendar conversion tool.<BR>
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3. Some are born, others die. With no updating since February,<BR>
it looks as if </FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=4 PTSIZE=14 FAMILY="SERIF" FACE="Times New Roman" LANG="0"><B>www.pyongyangsquare</B> </FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 PTSIZE=12 FAMILY="SERIF" FACE="Times New Roman" LANG="0">is no more.<BR>
Which is a shame. It was good while it lasted.<BR>
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With comminations to flunkeyists - 324 entries - everywhere<BR>
(it takes one to know one...)<BR>
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cheers<BR>
Aidan<BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SERIF" FACE="Times New Roman" LANG="0">AIDAN FOSTER-CARTER<BR>
Honorary Senior Research Fellow in Sociology & Modern Korea, Leeds University <BR>
Home address: 17 Birklands Road, Shipley, West Yorkshire, BD18 3BY, UK <BR>
tel: +44(0) 1274 588586 (alt) +44(0) 1264 737434 mobile: +44(0) 7970 741307 <BR>
fax: +44(0) 1274 773663 ISDN: +44(0) 1274 589280<BR>
Email: afostercarter@aol.com (alt) afostercarter@yahoo.com website: www.aidanfc.net<BR>
[Please use @aol; but if any problems, please try @yahoo too - and let me know, so I can chide AOL]<BR>
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