<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">A <U>very</U> big "Dank u!" to Lucas for alerting us all to <BR>
what is surely the single best account of everyday life<BR>
in provincial North Korea over the past terrible decade.<BR>
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Not only is this very substantial - about 10,000 words -<BR>
but Barbara Demick does a skilled and convincing job<BR>
of interweaving individual stories with broader social,<BR>
economic and political trends.<BR>
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Ironically, this excellent journalist had been hounded by<BR>
the right-wing hate-merchants who so disfigure the American<BR>
political scene, for an earlier article which gave the other side <BR>
by interviewing a pro-regime DPRK businessman. See eg<BR>
http://journals.aol.com/fdrlstpprs2004/TheNewFederalistPapers/entries/1037<BR>
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Perhaps they will now apologize. Or pigs might fly.<BR>
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By the way, the second part of the article is also available at<BR>
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-chongjin4jul04,0,2287288.story?coll=la-home-headlines<BR>
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I suggest you <B>hasten to read and download these now!<BR>
</B>Not only does the LA Times require registration, but as I recall)<BR>
<B>anything more than a week old gets archived and has to be paid for.</B><BR>
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To those of you that dwelleth across the pond: Happy Fourth of July!<BR>
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Aidan<BR>
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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 737634 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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In a message dated 04/07/2005 09:03:28 GMT Standard Time, lhusgen@kirogi.demon.nl writes:<BR>
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Date:04/07/2005 09:03:28 GMT Standard Time<BR>
From:<A HREF="mailto:lhusgen@kirogi.demon.nl">lhusgen@kirogi.demon.nl</A><BR>
Reply-to:<A HREF="mailto:Koreanstudies@koreaweb.ws">Koreanstudies@koreaweb.ws</A><BR>
To:<A HREF="mailto:Koreanstudies@koreaweb.ws">Koreanstudies@koreaweb.ws</A><BR>
<I>Sent from the Internet </I><BR>
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A long and disturbing story about Chongjin, North Korea, can be read at<BR>
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http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-chongjin3jul03,0,6672466,full.story?coll=la-home-headlines<BR>
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There's also some video footage.<BR>
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LA Times does require registration.<BR>
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Best,<BR>
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Lucas Hüsgen<BR>
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When you hear music, after it's over, it's gone, in the air. You can never <BR>
capture it again.<BR>
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(Eric Dolphy)<BR>
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Perhaps we suffer unknowingly from an unrecognized mass disease: chronic, <BR>
pernicious beauty deficiency.<BR>
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(Richard Heinberg)<BR>
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