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April 26th, 2008
Syria: Explosive Nuclear News
· 12:46
April 21st, 2008
Japan: Comfort Women Video Calls Attention to a Still Unresolved Issue. 
· 14:11
More than 60 years have passed since the World War II, but women who claim to have been abducted under Japanese Military's orders to serve as sexual slaves on military "Comfort Stations" are still waiting for the government's public apologies and material compensation even as the government still denies the ... 1 comment · »»
April 20th, 2008
Hyejin Kim: A praised young novelist among GVO authors
· 09:45
Global Voices celebrates, this month, Hyejin Kim's first anniversary as the GVO Korean Language editor. She is also a celebrated young novelist: her debut book, 'Jia: A Novel of North Korea', has been highly praised as a very vivid and moving novel set in 1990’s North Korea. Is this story just fiction? Hyejin lets us know in this interview. 4 comments · »»
March 4th, 2008
Japan: The decline of pachinko
· 14:07
A staple of the modern Japanese cityscape, pachinko parlors employ a third of a million people in Japan, draw in an estimated 30 trillion yen per year, and entice roughly one quarter of the country's entire population to play at least occasionally, 17 million of them on a regular basis. With plans underway to legalize and regulate casinos in Japan, the status of such pachinko parlors has been put into question, sparking a re-assessment, in comments and blog posts, of the place of gambling in modern Japanese society. 2 comments · »»
June 27th, 2007
Korea: 6.25
· 11:37
November 23rd, 2006
Arabisc: Plagiarism, Arrests, Bans and Democracy!
· 12:33
October 10th, 2006
Northeast Asia: Nuclear test
· 01:17
April 2nd, 2006
Bold Flavors of the World
· 20:54
Links about North Korea
March 15th, 2008
Varena at PingMag interviews Lars Bromley, director of the Geospatial Technologies and Human Rights Project of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), who talks about how his group uses geospatial technology to digitally capture atrocities against civilians in Darfur, Zimbabwe, North Korea, the Gaza Strip and Burma.
February 7th, 2008
Morgan Pitelka from frog in a well blogs about a symposium on “early modern” periodization in East Asia. There is an interesting debate about comparative history.
December 19th, 2007
December 3rd, 2007
Wangxiaofeng blogs about his one day trip to North Korea [zh] in detail.
November 16th, 2007
Philippines might soon be competing with North Korea says Postcard Headlines.
October 31st, 2007
Jae Young Lee from Ohmynews reports on the North Korea path to de-nuclearization.
October 3rd, 2007
Melissa Wabnitz from Ohmynews wrote an article about Korean comfort women and their history in struggling to get an apology from the Japan government.
“Peace declaration” has been agreed upon on the intra-Korean summit. North Korea will provide a complete list of its nuclear programs and disable its facilities by Dec. 31. Robert Koehler posts some notes on how the Korean government prepared for the summit.
Walter Hendler from Ohmynews also wrote a pre-summit commentary.
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