<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Thanks for the great article, Aiden! Did you have to put bandaids on your eye-balls after reading so much slashing, violent fulmination?<div><br></div><div>Any chance you can dig up photos of some of the foreign devils who copy-edited this stuff in English? One wonders if they have PTSD by now; hopefully they were sharp enough to ask in advance to be paid in soju!</div><div><br></div><div><br><br>--- On <b>Fri, 5/18/12, Aidan Foster-Carter <i><afostercarter@aol.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Aidan Foster-Carter <afostercarter@aol.com><br>Subject: [KS] (no subject)<br>To: Koreanstudies@koreaweb.ws<br>Date: Friday, May 18, 2012, 9:56 AM<br><br><div id="yiv1907971737"><font color="black" size="3" face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, Serif">
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<div style="font-family:'Book Antiqua';background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);font-size:large;"><font size="4">Just to let you know that the new issue of <em>Comparative Connections</em></font></div>
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<div style="font-family:'Book Antiqua';background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);font-size:large;"><font size="4">includes what I think is the first full account and detailed analysis</font></div>
<div style="font-family:'Book Antiqua';background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);font-size:large;"><font size="4">in English of </font><font size="4">North Korea's ongoing bloodthirsty fulminations</font></div>
<div style="font-family:'Book Antiqua';background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);font-size:large;"><font size="4">against </font><font size="4">South Korea and especially its President, Lee Myung-bak.</font></div>
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<div><font size="4">In over 40 years of following North Korea, I've read tons of rich</font></div>
<div><font size="4">DPRK invective - but never anything as bizarre and nasty as this.</font></div>
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<div style="font-family:'Book Antiqua';background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);font-size:large;"><font size="4">(They don't much care for Park Geun-hye, either; for all that she</font></div>
<div style="font-family:'Book Antiqua';background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);font-size:large;"><font size="4">dined with Kim Jong-il in Pyongyang less than a decade ago.)</font></div>
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<div style="font-family:'Book Antiqua';background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);font-size:large;"><font size="4">In case of interest, this article is freely available to all at</font></div>
<div style="font-family:'Book Antiqua';background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);font-size:large;"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://csis.org/files/publication/1201qnk_sk.pdf" style="color:blue;cursor:pointer;"><font size="4">http://csis.org/files/publication/1201qnk_sk.pdf</font></a></div>
<div style="font-family:'Book Antiqua';background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);font-size:large;"><font size="4">The full issue, which as ever also has three further articles on Korea</font></div>
<div style="font-family:'Book Antiqua';background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);font-size:large;"><font size="4">covering the two Koreas' relations with the US, China and Japan,</font></div>
<div style="font-family:'Book Antiqua';background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);font-size:large;"><font size="4">can be accessed at </font><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://csis.org/program/comparative-connections" style="color:blue;cursor:pointer;"><font size="4">http://csis.org/program/comparative-connections</font></a></div>
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<div style="font-family:'Book Antiqua';background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);font-size:large;"><font size="4">All good wishes</font></div>
<div style="font-family:'Book Antiqua';background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);font-size:large;"><font size="4">Aidan FC</font></div>
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