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<div>Dear Aidan (and others),</div>
<div><x-tab> </x-tab>There
is another brief mention of the KAL bombing in Harrold's book on p.
93, and a somewhat longer discussion on pp. 110-12. However, he
just reports North Korea's official denials, with a somewhat sceptical
gloss. The only item he reports that resembles hard evidence is
an article by Kim Jong Ryol, reprinted in<i> The<font color="#000000">
Pyongyang</font> Times</i> on 28 May 1988, which apparently admitted
South Korean responsibility. Harrold is doubtful about the
authenticity and accuracy of the article, but he didn't seem to do
anything to track down the original. Has anyone else?</div>
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</x-tab>Probably more useful, in this genre, is<font
color="#000000"><i> A Year in Pyongyang</i> by Andrew Holloway</font>,
which can be found on Aidan's web-site. In chapter 9, he has a
longer discussion of the incident than Harrold seems to do, saying,
amongst other things that "<font color="#000000">The timing for
such an outrage could hardly seem less in keeping with North Korean
interests".</font> But he was also very critical of the
evidentiary weakness of the North Korean response.</div>
<div><x-tab> </x-tab>Hope
somebody more informed than me can shed more light on this ...</div>
<div><x-tab> </x-tab>All the
best,</div>
<div><x-tab>
</x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab>Pete
Morriss</div>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Times New Roman">2. The
Harrold reference puzzles me. A fascinating memoir,<br>
but with a rudimentary index. The only reference I can find<br>
to KAL 858, on pp 84-85, is non-committal on the DPRK's<br>
culpability regarding this and other terrorist acts. If anything,<br>
I read him as implicitly endorsing that possibility.<br>
Or is there further discussion elsewhere in the book?<br>
<br>
cheers<br>
Aidan FC<br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Times New Roman">In a message
dated 04/05/2006 19:00:35 GMT Standard Time, aoverl@yahoo.co.uk
writes:</font><br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" color="#000000">I
would be also interested in reading more details about Harrold's
argument, since his book is unavailable for me for the time
being.</font></blockquote>
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All the best,</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial"
color="#000000">Balazs </font><br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" color="#000000">As for
the downing of KAL858 in 1987 (about which Shin himself directed a
film, "Mayumi", in 1990), I daresay Prof.
Foster-Carter has read "Comrades and Strangers" by Michael
Harrold, who was living in Pyongyang what the time of the incident,
and insisted that such an act would have been counterproductive for
the North Korean government. An interesting, though also
inconclusive, argument.</font></blockquote>
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