DPRK: In your face
When Democrats like Ashton Carter and William Perry make Dick Cheney look like a moderate, its time to rethink US policy towards North Korea. How about taking the North Koreans up on their offer, made more than five years ago,…
The Shorrock Files
New, Rare and Unreleased Material from the DMZ Empire
The Shorrock Files
New, Rare and Unreleased Material from the DMZ Empire
Tim Shorrock
Tim Shorrock is a Washington-based investigative journalist who grew up in Japan and South Korea. He is the author of SPIES FOR HIRE: The Secret World of Outsourced Intelligence, published in 2008 by Simon & Schuster (see him talking about his book here). Over the past 35 years, his work has appeared in many publications in the United States and abroad, including The Nation, Salon, Daily Beast, Mother Jones, The Progressive, Foreign Policy in Focus and Asia Times. He also appears frequently on the radio as a commentator on intelligence, contracting, foreign policy, East Asia and North and South Korea. He has been interviewed on Democracy Now, NPR’s Fresh Air, HuffPostLive and many other outlets.
Korean activists shut down FTA hearing
From the Korea Times: “Angry farmers and activists effectively disrupted a public hearing on ongoing free trade agreement (FTA) talks between Korea and the United States, Tuesday, leading to their suspension. Four hundred farmers and anti-free trade activists staged a…
Korean fantasy
The US is going bananas over North Korea’s missile-firing preparations. So maybe this is your chance to book your tour of the world’s last communist state. Golf in Pyongyang, dine on the Yalu.
Eric Clapton and…Kim Jong Il?
Apparently the Dear Leader’s second son is a big fan. From the Korea Times: “Japan’s Fuji TV has broadcast footage of a man resembling North Korean Leader Kim Jong-il’s second son, who is about 170 centimeters high, wearing blue jeans,…
South Korea vs Boeing
Update: Pilot deaths put F-15 deal in doubt From June 8: The crash this week of two F-15s flown by the South Korean Air Force has revived Korean anger over the Bush administration’s heavy-handed pressure campaign on Seoul to buy…
Iraq: Flat-out civil war
Nir Rosen on the Zarqawi hit: “Iraq is in the midst of a civil war. This civil war may have begun the day the Americans overthrew the old order in Iraq and established a new one, with Shias on top…
Indonesia: More blood on US hands
Donald Rumsfeld was in Indonesia this week to celebrate the normalization of US military ties with the Indonesian army, which has openly defied international law and the UN in refusing to own up to gross crimes against humanity committed in…
Death squads return to the Philippines
An alarming report from Asia Times today about the Philippines, one of America’s closest allies in East Asia. Three political activists with the Movement for National Democracy (KPD), a coalition of trade unions, farmers’ and fishermen’s organizations, and women’s and…
The sky’s the limit
TOM ENGELHARDT on US intelligence. All you need to know. “Whatever numbers follow have to be taken with a large grain of unverifiable salt. But we do know this: the IC is simply enormous with, seemingly, a life of its…
The Military-Industrial Complex at work (Missile division)
The Joint Air to Surface Standoff Missile (JASSM) was developed by the Pentagon in 1997 as a joint program for the US Air Force and Navy. It is a precision cruise missile carried on the most lethal weapons vehicles in…
Flashback: Enron and Crony Capitalism
Now that the top dogs at Enron have been convicted, its time to look back at Enron’s operations in Asia, where the company created a small empire of power plants with the help of the IMF, the World Bank and…
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