New, Rare and Unreleased Material from the DMZ Empire
New, Rare and Unreleased Material from the DMZ Empire
May 18 marks the 40th anniversary of the Gwangju Massacre and Uprising, which shook the foundations of South Korea in 1980 and marked the beginning of the country’s long march towards democracy. I’ve written extensively about Gwangju and the unfortunate…
That line from Johnny Cash was all I could think of when these bizarre photos were posted on social media today. Here’s how the Washington Post reported the story. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was shown riding a white horse in…
The roots of the historical divisions between South Korea and Japan go back to a 1965 normalization treaty that was signed by Seoul and Tokyo after years of U.S. economic and diplomatic pressure. In a 2016 article in The Nation,…
This is a pretty big deal, posted tonight at the Washington Post: A California man who says he served as a translator last year for Michael Cohen and a South Korean aerospace firm that paid Cohen’s company $150,000 said Tuesday that FBI…
Hankyoreh has more details today about Kim Yong-chol, the former North Korean intelligence chief and Kim Jong Un’s key adviser on his talks with Trump. It is notable that Kim Yong-chol has emerged as Pompeo’s negotiating partner when the Workers’…
The CIA, as I’ve been saying for weeks, is running the show for Trump’s North Korea peace and denuclearization initiative, and its role is expanding as the date (June 12) for the Kim summit draws ever closer. Last night, just…
Some critical background on KAI’s $150K payment to Trump’s lawyer So how ridiculous is this? Here’s the story in the WSJ: The Avenatti memo also said Korea Aerospace Industries Ltd. made a $150,000 payment to Mr. Cohen in November 2017. Korea Aerospace said it…
I wrote this in 2017 as Trump’s Secretary of Defense James Mattis – soon to be fired by the bizarre former president – was visiting South Korea and Japan to prepare for what many saw as an inevitable war with…
…So I published it myself, in Medium. People power, not the U.S. military, created South Korea’s vibrant democracy As millions of South Koreans filled their streets in the weeks leading up to last week’s impeachment of their beleagured president, Park Guen-hye,…
The Pentagon is trying to push through a trilateral alliance with Japan and South Korea before anyone noticed. But I did. My latest, from TomDispatch: Despite the attention being given to America’s roiling wars and conflicts in the Greater Middle East,…
One year ago I had the incredible honor of having my work on the United States and South Korea featured in Hankyoreh, a newspaper founded by courageous journalists forced out of their jobs during the Park and Chun dictatorships. Hankyoreh posted this…
My latest, just posted at The Nation (with the Korean version at NewsPro): Over the past two weeks, South Korea has been obsessed with a huge scandal involving its president, Park Geun-hye. Highly unpopular, she faces fierce criticism and protests over her…
Through the eyes of an American boy in Seoul In 1960, I was living in Seoul, where my father was working for a religious organization that distributed relief aid in postwar South Korea. During the presidential elections of March 1960,…
AN INTEL BIZ NEWS DOCUMENT DUMP This is a DARPA document from 2010. It was provided by a source inside US intelligence who was uncomfortable with the large amount of surveillance contracts going out to private companies, none of whom are…
Contract of the day, from the Pentagon: Zel Technologies Inc. (Zel Tech),* Hampton, Virginia, has been awarded a $165,272,923 ceiling, cost-plus-award-fee task order under the General Services Administration (GSA) One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services (OASIS) Small Business Pool 4…
Intel Biz News is about to publish its first story. This site will be the only news website to cover intelligence the way it actually operates – as a joint venture between state security agencies and the private sector. The site…
A big transaction in the big data space today. As reported by Washington Business Journal, “Tysons-based not-for-profit government consultant LMI announced Thursday that it bought Herndon-based FourWinds Limited Co., strengthening its position with intelligence community customers.” Here’s the key graf: FourWinds…
