New, Rare and Unreleased Material from the DMZ Empire
New, Rare and Unreleased Material from the DMZ Empire
Spreading disinformation on North Korea’s satellite launch facility is a new low. So I got some answers about the site from 38 North. On Tuesday and Wednesday, NBC Nightly News broadcast a story by Andrea Mitchell making lurid allegations that…
Last night, February 26, I went to Twitter to rip Vox.com and Vox reporter Alex Ward for a story they had posted quoting Moon Chung-in, a senior adviser to South Korean President Moon Jae-in, that a pending deal it described…
My latest, just published in The Nation. Here’s the lead: The New York Times may still have a Judith Miller problem—only now it’s a David Sanger problem. Miller, of course, is the former Times reporter who helped build the case for the…
Trump Vows to End “Provocative” War Games on Korean Peninsula After Historic Summit with Kim Jong-un Here’s the interview I did last night on Democracy Now! with Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez.
Your correspondent and Nambeon Kim now have their credentials! First White House briefing at 5pm today. Some pics from both press rooms – 2,500 reporters are registered! Because there’s no story yet, reporters are interviewing other reporters. I just spoke to…
A breakdown of DISPATCH KOREA readers after five days of publication:
Earlier today: “A citizen took a picture of an F-22 flying in the skies over Gwangju this afternoon and posted it on an internet community page, which is apparently how it became known that the F-22 had arrived in South…
Five days ago, after reading stories in the Korean press about the latest US-South Korean military exercises called “Max Thunder,” I tweeted out a warning that the strategic weapons being deployed might set off red flags in Pyongyang. I'm a…
This morning, Christine Ahn of Women Cross DMZ and Joe Cirincione of Ploughshares both spoke eloquently about the President Moon-led peace process in Korea, surprisingly on Joy Reid’s show. Watch the interview here. Surprisingly, the most liberal of the networks has been…
North Korean state media today announced that it will invite foreign reporters to observe the dismantling of its “northern nuclear test ground” under the mountain called Punggye-ri between May 23 and May 25, depending on the weather. Here’s the word…