L’amour dans la vengeance
▻https://laviedesidees.fr/L-amour-dans-la-vengeance
En Corée du Sud, le cinéma comme les séries partagent une même passion pour les histoires de vengeance. Davantage que celle de Marx, la pensée de René Girard éclaire le caractère mimétique et archaïque de cette ultra-violence.
#International #violence #concurrence #télévision #Asie #Corée_du_Nord
▻https://laviedesidees.fr/IMG/docx/202306230_seriecoree-2.docx
▻https://laviedesidees.fr/IMG/pdf/202306230_seriecoree.pdf
D’une Corée l’autre
▻https://laviedesidees.fr/D-une-Coree-l-autre.html
Au Sud, une république marchande ; au Nord, une colonie pénitentiaire. Dans la péninsule coréenne, un même peuple a donné naissance à des modèles drastiquement opposés. Séquelle de la guerre civile, héritage de la colonisation ou réponse asiatique à l’hubris occidentale ?
#International #capitalisme #État #Asie #Corée_du_Sud #Corée_du_Nord #dictature
▻https://laviedesidees.fr/IMG/docx/202212_corees.docx
▻https://laviedesidees.fr/IMG/pdf/20221209_corees.pdf
#Asie
La base américaine d’Okinawa, épine dans le pied du premier ministre japonais, par Gavan McCormack (Le Monde diplomatique, septembre 2015)
►http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2015/09/MCCORMACK/53686
La présence militaire américaine au Japon, par Cécile Marin (Le Monde diplomatique, septembre 2015)
▻http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/cartes/japon-presencemilUS
Navire chinois aux Diaoyu/Senkaku, discours à la nation en Thaïlande et abaissement de la majorité pénale en Inde - Asialyst
▻https://asialyst.com/fr/2015/12/23/navire-chinois-aux-diaoyusenkaku-discours-a-la-nation-en-thailande-et-abai
#Japon #Relations_Internationales_Asie_Japon #Etats_Unis #Relations_Internationales_Etats_Unis
La Banque du #Japon adopte des taux négatifs dans l’espoir de revigorer l’économie. Par Vittorio De Filippis - Libération
▻http://www.liberation.fr/planete/2016/01/29/la-banque-du-japon-adopte-des-taux-negatifs-dans-l-espoir-de-revigorer-l-
#BoJ #Japon #Monnaie #Politique_monétaire
Bientôt des robots au chevet des patients japonais, par Arthur Fouchère (Le Monde diplomatique, août 2016)
▻http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2016/08/FOUCHERE/56093
#Sciences #Santé
Le gouvernement japonais demande aux universités de ne plus enseigner les sciences humaines | Slate.fr
►http://www.slate.fr/story/106865/japon-sciences-humaines
"Cette décision correspond au plan de croissance du Premier ministre Shinzo Abe, selon lequel le rôle des universités est de « produire des ressources humaines qui correspondent aux besoins de la société »."
"Dans un éditorial pour le Japan Times, le président de Shiga University, Takamitsu Sawa, se plaignait qu’un membre du ministère de l’Éducation avait suggéré qu’en dehors de huit universités d’élite, les étudiants devraient apprendre à utiliser des logiciels de comptabilité plutôt que les textes de l’économiste Paul Samuelson, et la traduction anglais-japonais plutôt que Shakespeare."
–-La #Birmanie en liberté surveillée, par Renaud Egreteau (Le Monde diplomatique, décembre 2015)
►http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2015/12/EGRETEAU/54358
Nature et cultures birmanes, par Agnès Stienne (Le Monde diplomatique, décembre 2015)
►http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/cartes/Birmanie-ethnies
Total mis en cause pour le financement de la junte birmane
▻https://www.lesechos.fr/industrie-services/energie-environnement/total-en-birmanie-le-groupe-francais-financerait-la-junte-via-des-comptes-o
Birmanie : vers des sanctions énergiques contre les généraux ?
►https://asialyst.com/fr/2021/05/03/birmanie-vers-sanctions-energiques-contre-generaux
#Multinationales #Energies_Tubes
–#Vietnam : la mondialisation contre la géographie - Asialyst
▻https://asialyst.com/fr/2015/12/15/vietnam-la-mondialisation-contre-la-geographie
"Le Vietnam et Singapour sont les seuls pays de l’ASEAN à avoir adhéré au Partenariat transpacifique, le fameux TPP lancé par les Américains, et à avoir signé un traité de libre-échange avec l’Union européenne. La position de Singapour n’étonne pas, celle du Vietnam surprend. Qu’est ce qui la motive ?"❞
#Asie_Vietnam #Asie_Singapour #ASEAN #TPP #Géographie #Commerce #Traités_commerciaux #Asie #Asie_du_sud_est
Mer de Chine méridionale. Un drone vietnamien pour surveiller les zones contestées | Courrier international
►http://www.courrierinternational.com/article/mer-de-chine-meridionale-un-drone-vietnamien-pour-surveiller-
#Hydrocarbures
Le #Vietnam se rêve en atelier de la planète, par Martine Bulard (Le Monde diplomatique, février 2017)
▻http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2017/02/BULARD/57125
#TPP #Traités_commerciaux_TPP #Libre_Echange
"Certes, depuis le lancement de la politique dite « du renouveau » (doi moi), en 1986, des entreprises sont sorties du lot"
"Pour lui, « l’économie mondiale marche par vagues de délocalisations. Celles-ci sont parties de l’Europe pour aller vers le Japon et la Corée du Sud, puis elles sont passées en Chine. Avec l’augmentation des salaires chinois, elles arrivent désormais au Vietnam, au Bangladesh, en Birmanie. C’est la loi naturelle, l’objectif des entreprises étant de faire du profit. Ce sont des cycles de dix ou quinze ans » — ce qui devrait « nous donner du temps pour qualifier les travailleurs et améliorer les performances », dit-il. On croirait entendre M. Pascal Lamy"
"Le chef du gouvernement mise aussi sur l’accord signé avec l’Union européenne et ratifié — sans grand débat — par le Parlement français en juin 2016."
"cette stratégie a un prix : la dépendance"
"Les autorités vietnamiennes tablent sur le dogme périlleux qui a fait la puissance de Singapour, de Taïwan ou de la Chine : le faible coût de la main-d’œuvre. À une différence près, note M. Erwin Schweisshelm, directeur de la Fondation Friedrich Ebert au Vietnam : « Ces pays ont quand même protégé leurs marchés et imposé des régulations. Aujourd’hui encore, il est impossible de détenir une compagnie chinoise à 100 %, et certains investissements doivent comporter des transferts de technologie. Le Vietnam, lui, est ouvert à tous les vents."
#Singapour, #Malaisie, #Indonésie : triangle de croissance ou triangle des inégalités ?, par Philippe Revelli (Le Monde diplomatique, juillet 2016)
▻http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2016/07/REVELLI/55958
L’Indonésie, "pays musulman" ? Par Anda Djoehana Wiradikarta - Asialyst
▻https://asialyst.com/fr/2015/06/05/indonesie-un-pays-musulman
Indonésie 1965, mémoire de l’impunité, par Lena Bjurström (Le Monde diplomatique, décembre 2015)
▻http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2015/12/BJURSTROM/54359
ÉCONOMIE. L’Indonésie près de la case Bric | Courrier international
▻http://www.courrierinternational.com/article/2013/01/03/l-indonesie-pres-de-la-case-bric
-"l’Indonésie ait été désignée pour présider les négociations dans le cadre du Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP).
Ce partenariat comprend les pays membres de l’Asean plus la Chine, le Japon, la Corée du Sud, l’Inde, l’Australie et la Nouvelle-Zélande, d’où son nom d’Asean + 6. Ce groupe est appelé à jouer un rôle très important dans l’économie mondiale puisqu’il représente 28 % du PNB mondial et rassemble la moitié des 6,9 milliards d’habitants de notre planète. Cette mission confiée à l’Indonésie revêt donc une valeur éminemment stratégique.Reste à savoir si les prévisions de McKinsey et de l’OCDE vont se réaliser. On peut tirer des enseignements de ce qui est arrivé au Brésil, à la Russie, à l’Inde et à la Chine, un groupe connu sous le nom de Bric. En 2001, la banque Goldman Sachs, qui a créé cet acronyme, prédisait qu’ils allaient devenir les superpuissances du monde. Or les voilà confrontés aujourd’hui à une inflation très élevée parce qu’ils n’étaient pas préparés à une croissance aussi rapide." ;
–"Les manifestations ouvrières, de plus en plus massives, devraient également attirer notre attention. Il ne faudrait pas qu’elles dérapent et sapent la confiance des investisseurs." ;
–" Les incitations fiscales destinées aux industries stratégiques ne touchent en fait qu’une toute petite partie des entreprises, parce qu’elles ne sont accordées qu’à celles dont le chiffre d’affaires dépasse l’équivalent de 80 millions d’euros et qui emploient plus de 500 personnes.
Une étude de l’OCDE de septembre 2012 montre pourtant que le tissu industriel indonésien est constitué à 99 % de moyennes, petites et microentreprises. Enfin, faute d’infrastructures adéquates, le développement rapide des investissements ne pourra que provoquer une surchauffe, entraînant à son tour une déstabilisation de l’économie. "
La Banque mondiale et le FMI ont jeté leur dévolu sur le #Timor_Oriental, un État né officiellement en mai 2002. 2 novembre par Eric Toussaint
▻https://www.cadtm.org/La-Banque-mondiale-et-le-FMI-ont-jete-leur-devolu-sur-Timor-Oriental-un-Etat-
#IFI_FMI_Banque_Mondiale #Asie_Pacifique
#Corée-du-sud
Virage autoritaire à Séoul, par Sung Ilkwon (Le Monde diplomatique, janvier 2016)
►http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2016/01/ILKWON/54458
-"« Comment la présidente peut-elle parler de “réunion violente et illégale” alors qu’autant de monde manifestait pacifiquement ? Comment peut-elle comparer les manifestants portant un masque à des membres de l’organisation terroriste Daech ? »" ;
–"A entendre le président du Saenuri, M. Kim Moosung, la responsabilité en incomberait… aux syndicats : « Sans la KCTU, le pays serait beaucoup plus riche. Le produit intérieur brut [PIB] par personne dépasserait les 30 000 dollars »" ;
–"Par ailleurs, le gouvernement veut privatiser certains services hospitaliers, dans l’objectif de les rendre profitables." ;
–" la décision de Mme Park d’imposer un seul manuel d’histoire, dont le contenu serait déterminé par une commission qu’elle désignerait elle-même. Il s’agit, dit-elle, « de donner une vision correcte de l’histoire et de rectifier les versions déformées et gauchisantes qui essaient de glorifier la Corée du Nord en discréditant les réalisations capitalistes du Sud (3) »."
« Révolution des bougies » à Séoul, par Sung Il-kwon (Le Monde diplomatique, janvier 2017)
►http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2017/01/IL_KWON/57002
#Asie #Asie_Corée_du_Sud #Relations_Internationales #Multinationales #Ploutocratie
"« Ces chaebol qui se sont montrés impitoyables envers leurs salariés et les petites entreprises, mais généreux à l’égard de Choi Soon-sil et de sa fille, méritent des sanctions. »"
"Les Sud-Coréens estiment également qu’elle et sa majorité n’ont rien fait contre l’évasion fiscale pratiquée à grande échelle par les dirigeants des chaebol et qu’ils ont fermé les yeux sur leur financement occulte des partis et des journaux."
#Documentaires
Un oeil sur la planète - Corée : la puissance cachée - YouTube
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJwCMLJmh8Y
#États-Unis / #Corée_du_Nord : Il n’y a pas de solution militaire. PASCAL BONIFACE·LUNDI 4 SEPTEMBRE 2017
▻https://www.facebook.com/notes/pascal-boniface/%C3%A9tats-unis-cor%C3%A9e-du-nord-il-ny-a-pas-de-solution-militaire/10155711423904100
#Chine #Relations_Internationales
Secrets chinois dévoilés, présidence birmane nommée en mars et meurtre raciste en Inde - Asialyst
▻https://asialyst.com/fr/2016/02/04/secrets-chinois-devoiles-presidence-birmane-nommee-en-mars-et-meurtre-raci
"-Au moment de son arrestation et de sa mise en examen, son petit frère aurait alors fuit aux Etats-Unis avec en sa possession plus de 2 700 documents internes sensibles. Ces documents représenteraient « les informations les plus précieuses jamais obtenues par un transfuge chinois depuis ces trente dernières années »." ;
–"Corée du Sud : Séoul promet de détruire le missile nord-coréen" ;
–#TPP : "Le Partenariat transpacifique signé à Auckland, la Chine prend acte" ; #Traités_commerciaux
–"Dans le même temps, Pékin est en train de mettre sur pied sa propre Zone de Libre-Echange de l’Asie-Pacifique (FTAAP). Sans les Américains, bien sûr." ;
–"#Thaïlande : la junte accentue sa pression sur les médias étrangers"
L’#Australie séduite par la Chine, par Olivier Zajec (Le Monde diplomatique, janvier 2015) #Océanie
▻http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2015/01/ZAJEC/51931
Le président chinois le plus puissant depuis Mao Zedong, par Emilie Frenkiel (Le Monde diplomatique, octobre 2015)
►http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2015/10/FRENKIEL/53964
Ce que cachent les soubresauts financiers de la Chine, par Michel Aglietta (Le Monde diplomatique, octobre 2015)
►http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2015/10/AGLIETTA/53963
#Taïwan en quête de souveraineté économique, par Tanguy Lepesant (Le Monde diplomatique, mai 2016)
►http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2016/05/LEPESANT/55448
L’#Amérique_centrale lâche Taipei, par Guillaume Beaulande (Le Monde diplomatique, mai 2016)
▻http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2016/05/BEAULANDE/55450
Taïwan, pièce manquante du « rêve chinois ». par Tanguy Lepesant
▻https://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2021/10/LEPESANT/63636
#OMC #UE
Chine : l’épineuse question du statut d’économie de marché. Par Elodie Le Gal - Asialyst
▻https://asialyst.com/fr/2016/05/10/chine-l-epineuse-question-du-statut-d-economie-de-marche
« Nous en parlons peu mais cela pourrait devenir le sujet chaud de la fin de l’année. L’Organisation Mondiale du Commerce (OMC) va devoir traiter la demande de la Chine. Lors de son adhésion à l’OMC en 2001, figurait une clause à l’accord qui précisait que d’ici 2016, le pays pourrait obtenir le statut d’économie de marché. Des réformes du système économique chinois étaient donc attendues. L’heure a sonné, et le pays réclame ce changement. Quels sont les enjeux derrière cette évolution ? »
« Un refus d’accorder le fameux Graal impliquerait obligatoirement des représailles de la part de l’Empire du Milieu. Celles-ci concerneraient sa participation au plan de financement, mais toucheraient également les exportations vers la Chine et les entreprises européennes installées dans le pays. Certains observateurs parlent même de guerre économique ! Ce qui n’est toutefois pas prêt d’arriver, la Chine étant encore dépendante de la demande extérieure et des investissements étrangers dans certains domaines (luxe, biens de consommations, agroalimentaires, nouvelles technologies…).
D’un autre côté, une acceptation privilégierait surtout les grands groupes européens qui renforceraient leurs liens commerciaux avec la Chine, dont les débouchés sont incontournables. Les petits industriels seraient les grands perdants, même si le pays a promis de diminuer ses exportations d’acier. »
« l’Agence Chine Nouvelle insiste sur le fait que l’octroi de ce statut permettrait de renforcer les relations sino-européennes, et que le développement technologique de la Chine ouvrirait de nombreux débouchés aux industries européennes. L’accent est mis sur cette transformation de l’économie, non plus basée sur les exportations mais sur la demande intérieure et les services. L’Europe n’a donc pas à s’inquiéter ! »
Comment l’État chinois a su exploiter la #Mondialisation, par Philip S. Golub (Le Monde diplomatique, décembre 2017)
▻https://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2017/12/GOLUB/58218
Chine : l’élite ouïghoure décapitée au Xinjiang Par Sylvie Lasserre-Yousafzai - Asialyst
▻https://asialyst.com/fr/2018/10/19/chine-elite-ouighoure-decapitee-xinjiang
–#Relations_Internationales_Asie #Asie_Relations_Internationales :
Communauté de l’ASEAN : quel modèle d’intégration pour l’Asie du Sud-Est ? Par Alexandre Gandil - Asialyst
▻https://asialyst.com/fr/2015/12/24/communaute-de-l-asean-quel-modele-d-integration-pour-l-asie-du-sud-est
Perceptions et réalités de l’autoritarisme dans le Sud-Est asiatique, par Éric Frécon (Le Monde diplomatique, octobre 2016)
▻http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2016/10/FRECON/56409
Sud-Est asiatique : repères (Le Monde diplomatique, octobre 2016)
▻http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2016/10/A/56408
Crise dans les Paracels, tension entre la junte et les moines en Thaïlande et roupie indienne au plus bas. - Asialyst
▻https://asialyst.com/fr/2016/02/17/crise-dans-les-paracels-tension-entre-la-junte-et-les-moines-en-thailande-
#Documentaires Mer de Chine, la guerre des archipels | ARTE
►http://www.arte.tv/guide/fr/054777-000-A/mer-de-chine-la-guerre-des-archipels
Mer de Chine, la guerre des archipels ARTE - YouTube
►https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sGNZDrPMbY
#Philippines
Quand Manille manœuvre, par François-Xavier Bonnet (Le Monde diplomatique, mai 2017)
▻http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2017/05/BONNET/57476
Despot decor - The curious design features of North Korean hotels | Books & arts | The Economist
▻https://www.economist.com/books-and-arts/2020/10/24/the-curious-design-features-of-north-korean-hotels
(paywall)
Despot decor The curious design features of North Korean hotels
A book of photography offers an offbeat look at a little-seen city
Books & arts
Oct 24th 2020
Hotels of Pyongyang. By James Scullin and Nicole Reed. Head Tilt Press; 200 pages; £50.
AT THE BEGINNING of “Pyongyang”, a song of 2015 by the British band Blur, Damon Albarn, the vocalist, sings about looking down from his window “to the island where I’m held”. The line is a reference to the Yanggakdo Hotel, a 47-floor, 1,000-room monstrosity that sits on an island in the middle of the Taedong, the river that runs through the capital of North Korea.
]]>Northern accent: Urbanism and ephemera in North Korea | Essay | Architectural Review
▻https://www.architectural-review.com/essays/reviews/books/northern-accent-urbanism-and-ephemera-in-north-korea/10027572.article
Going beyond military threat, famine and dictatorship discussions, two new books give a more multi-faceted sense of North Korea
Pyongyang is commonly imagined as the ultimate Potemkin city. A supercharged amalgamation of Mao’s Beijing, Stalin’s Moscow and Walt’s Disneyland, arranged around stupefying axes leading to enormous monuments to the Kims, and to the ‘Juche Idea’ (roughly translated as ‘Self-Reliance’, Juche replaced Marxism-Leninism as North Korea’s official ideology at the end of the 1970s), with people starving behind the curtain. Explanations have to be sought for the apparent splendour of this capital in a country which is assumed to be economically dysfunctional. Urban myths are reinforced by the tight regulation of foreign visits – for instance, it was widely (and wrongly) believed that Pyongyang’s palatial Moscow-style Metro only had two stops, as these were the only stations tourists were allowed to see. Two new books try to go beyond the ultra-totalitarian surface, to give a more multi-faceted sense of what Pyongyang is actually like.
]]>Source: Dozens recently died at two Pyongsong hospitals - Daily NK
#Covid-19#migrant#migration#Corée_du_Nord#quarantaine
▻https://www.dailynk.com/english/source-dozens-recently-died-two-pyongsong-hospitals
#liste de contributeur·trices seenthis qui traitent spécifiquement de la question #covid-19 et #migrations :
– un Fil CEPED-MIGRINTER-IC MIGRATIONS #Monde :
@thomas_lacroix
– un Fil CEPED-MIGRINTER-IC MIGRATIONS #Afrique :
@ceped_migrinter_afrique
– un Fil CEPED-MIGRINTER-IC MIGRATIONS #Moyen-Orient :
@tony_rublon
– un Fil CEPED-MIGRINTER-IC MIGRATIONS #Balkans :
@luciebacon
– un fil CEPED - MIGRINTER - IC MIGRATIONS - #Asie_de_l’Est (#Chine, #Japon, #Corée_du_Nord et #Corée_du_Sud, #Mongolie) :
@zhipeng_li
– un fil CEPED - MIGRINTER - IC MIGRATIONS - #santé :
@veronique_petit
– Groupe pluridisciplinaire de recherche sur les #Mineurs_Non_Accompagnés (#MNA) - Institut Convergences Migration :
@mina_93
Plus sur les fils de discussion de l’#Institut_convergences_migrations :
►http://icmigrations.fr/2020/03/30/covid-19-et-migrations
Covid 19 coronavirus: North Korea insists it has no cases amid questions over state secrecy - NZ Herald
#Covid-19#Corée_du_Nord#frontière#migrant#migration
▻https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=12324399
Covid-19 : la Corée du Nord appelle à des mesures plus fortes contre la pandémie - Le Parisien
#Covid-19#Corée_du_Nord#frontière#contrôle#migrant#migration
▻http://www.leparisien.fr/international/covid-19-la-coree-du-nord-appelle-a-des-mesures-plus-fortes-contre-la-pan
Le leader nord-coréen dirige une réunion du Politburo sur le coronavirus | AGENCE DE PRESSE YONHAP
#Covid-19#Corée_du_Nord#contrôle#migrant#migration
▻https://fr.yna.co.kr/view/AFR20200412000200884
Agence centrale de presse nord-coréenne:Pyongyang, désinfection de l’eau de toute la ville
朝中社:平壤对全市水槽、贮水池进行全面清扫消毒
#Covid-19#Corée_du_Nord#migrant#migration#santé
▻http://m.haiwainet.cn/middle/3541083/2020/0408/content_31762788_1.html
Corée du Nord, la promotion du mouvement de la santé au printemps dans la lutte contre le Covid-19
朝鲜推广进行春季卫生月活动 与防疫新冠肺炎相结合_手机新浪网
#Covid-19#migrant#migration#Corée_du_Nord#santé
▻https://news.sina.cn/gj/2020-04-08/detail-iirczymi5150670.d.html
#Seoul says inter-Korean talks needed to resolve #Mount_Kumgang issue despite Pyongyang’s refusal | Yonhap News Agency
▻https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20191030008200325
SEOUL, Oct. 30 (Yonhap) — A face-to-face meeting is necessary to discuss the fate of a long-suspended joint tour program to Mount Kumgang on North Korea’s east coast, the unification ministry said Wednesday, despite Pyongyang’s refusal to hold such a meeting.
On Tuesday, North Korea turned down Seoul’s offer to hold working-level talks, which was made in response to the North’s demand that all South Korean-built facilities at the mountain resort be removed “on an agreed-upon date.”
]]>Cartographers of North Korea : : 북한의 지도 제작자
▻https://cartographers-nk.wonyoung.so
An analysis of the #OpenStreetMap data in North Korea:
Who are the contributors? How and Why did they contribute to North Korea?
]]>Corée du Nord : selon un ex-haut diplomate nord-coréen, le régime pourrait s’effondrer d’ici 20 ans
Aude Solente, BFMTV, le 20 juin 2019
▻https://www.bfmtv.com/international/coree-du-nord-selon-un-ex-haut-diplomate-nord-coreen-le-regime-pourrait-s-eff
Sachant que la fin du monde est prévue pour #2030, cela indique que la #Corée_du_Nord survivra dix ans de plus que le reste du monde, probablement grâce à la sagesse et à la vision de Kim Jong Un...
On l’ajoute à la troisième compilation :
►https://seenthis.net/messages/680147
#effondrement #collapsologie #catastrophe #fin_du_monde #it_has_begun #Anthropocène #capitalocène
]]>North Korean diplomats in Spain : CIA implicated in attack on North Korean embassy in Madrid | In English | EL PAÍS
▻https://elpais.com/elpais/2019/03/13/inenglish/1552464196_279320.html
Les assaillants de l’ambassade nord-coréenne à Madrid liés à la #CIA, selon la presse - L’Orient-Le Jour
▻https://www.lorientlejour.com/article/1161481/les-assaillants-de-lambassade-nord-coreenne-a-madrid-lies-a-la-cia-se
Au moins deux des dix personnes qui ont pris d’assaut en février l’ambassade de #Corée_du_Nord à Madrid, dérobant des ordinateurs, sont liés à la CIA américaine, affirme mercredi le quotidien espagnol El Pais.
« Au moins deux des dix assaillants, qui ont frappé et interrogé les huit personnes qui étaient dans la légation, ont été identifiés et ont des liens avec les services secrets des #Etats-Unis », a assuré El Pais, citant des sources policières et au sein du contre-espionnage espagnol (CNI).
]]>Le piège des Kim | ARTE - YouTube
« Voici l’histoire d’une petite dictature ... »
]]>Rapprochement intercoréen : la diplomatie des agrumes (et des champignons) - Asialyst
▻https://asialyst.com/fr/2018/11/13/rapprochement-intercoreen-diplomatie-agrumes-champigons
Le ballet des hercules C-130 aura duré deux jours. Depuis ce dimanche 11 novembre, ce sont près de 200 tonnes de mandarines sud-coréennes qui ont été livrées à Pyongyang via un pont aérien destiné à renforcer le rapprochement intercoréen. Un échange de bonnes intentions après les deux tonnes de champignons des pins envoyés par le Nord à Séoul en septembre dernier.
Le palais présidentiel à Séoul.
Ce sont des fruits dont on retrouve la trace dès le XIIIème siècle à la table des rois de Corée. Un fruit de saison rarement consommé en Corée du Nord, a expliqué le porte-parole de la Maison Bleue, et qui n’entrerait pas dans la liste des produits sous embargo de l’ONU. Un avis que ne partagent pas les conservateurs à Séoul. Au total : 20 000 cartons d’agrumes ont été avalés par les avions cargos de l’armée sud-coréenne pour être transportés en Corée du Nord. Une telle quantité s’apparente à de l’exportation, estiment celles et ceux qui voient d’un mauvais œil la politique de rapprochement vis-à-vis du voisin nord-coréen, menée par le président Moon Jae-in, et donc un geste qui violerait les sanctions imposées au régime de Pyongyang.
]]>Kim Jong Un, les militaires et toujours les petits carnets...
]]>“You Cry at Night but Don’t Know Why”. Sexual Violence against Women in North Korea
Oh Jung Hee is a former trader in her forties from Ryanggang province. She sold clothes to market stalls in Hyesan city and was involved in the distribution of textiles in her province. She said that up until she left the country in 2014, guards would regularly pass by the market to demand bribes, sometimes in the form of coerced sexual acts or intercourse. She told Human Rights Watch:
I was a victim many times … On the days they felt like it, market guards or police officials could ask me to follow them to an empty room outside the market, or some other place they’d pick. What can we do? They consider us [sex] toys … We [women] are at the mercy of men. Now, women cannot survive without having men with power near them.
She said she had no power to resist or report these abuses. She said it never occurred to her that anything could be done to stop these assaults except trying to avoid such situations by moving away or being quiet in order to not be noticed.
Park Young Hee, a former farmer in her forties also from Ryanggang province who left North Korea for the second time in 2011, was forced back to North Korea from China in the spring of 2010 after her first attempt to flee. She said, after being released by the secret police (bowiseong) and put under the jurisdiction of the police, the officer in charge of questioning her in the police pre-trial detention facility (kuryujang) near Musan city in North Hamgyong province touched her body underneath her clothes and penetrated her several times with his fingers. She said he asked her repeatedly about the sexual relations she had with the Chinese man to whom she had been sold to while in China. She told Human Rights Watch:
My life was in his hands, so I did everything he wanted and told him everything he asked. How could I do anything else? … Everything we do in North Korea can be considered illegal, so everything can depend on the perception or attitude of who is looking into your life.
Park Young Hee said she never told anybody about the abuse because she did not think it was unusual, and because she feared the authorities and did not believe anyone would help.
The experiences of Oh Jung Hee and Park Young Hee are not isolated ones. While sexual and gender-based violence is of concern everywhere, growing evidence suggests it is endemic in North Korea.
This report–based largely on interviews with 54 North Koreans who left the country after 2011, when the current leader, Kim Jong Un, rose to power, and 8 former North Korean officials who fled the country–focuses on sexual abuse by men in official positions of power. The perpetrators include high-ranking party officials, prison and detention facility guards and interrogators, police and secret police officials, prosecutors, and soldiers. At the time of the assaults, most of the victims were in the custody of authorities or were market traders who came across guards and other officials as they traveled to earn their livelihood.
Interviewees told us that when a guard or police officer “picks” a woman, she has no choice but to comply with any demands he makes, whether for sex, money, or other favors. Women in custody have little choice should they attempt to refuse or complain afterward, and risk sexual violence, longer periods in detention, beatings, forced labor, or increased scrutiny while conducting market activities.
Women not in custody risk losing their main source of income and jeopardizing their family’s survival, confiscation of goods and money, and increased scrutiny or punishment, including being sent to labor training facilities (rodong danryeondae) or ordinary-crimes prison camps (kyohwaso, literally reform through labor centers) for being involved in market activities. Other negative impacts include possibly losing access to prime trading locations, being fired or overlooked for jobs, being deprived of means of transportation or business opportunities, being deemed politically disloyal, being relocated to a remote area, and facing more physical or sexual violence.
The North Koreans we spoke with told us that unwanted sexual contact and violence is so common that it has come to be accepted as part of ordinary life: sexual abuse by officials, and the impunity they enjoy, is linked to larger patterns of sexual abuse and impunity in the country. The precise number of women and girls who experience sexual violence in North Korea, however, is unknown. Survivors rarely report cases, and the North Korean government rarely publishes data on any aspect of life in the country.
Our research, of necessity conducted among North Koreans who fled, does not provide a generalized sample from which to draw definitive conclusions about the prevalence of sexual abuse by officials. The diversity in age, geographic location, social class, and personal backgrounds of the survivors, combined with many consistencies in how they described their experiences, however, suggest that the patterns of sexual violence identified here are common across North Korea. Our findings also mirror those of other inquiries that have tried to discern the situation in this sealed-off authoritarian country.
A 2014 United Nations Commission of Inquiry (UN COI) on human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) concluded that systematic, widespread, and gross human rights violations committed by the North Korean government constituted crimes against humanity. These included forced abortion, rape, and other sexual violence, as well as murder, imprisonment, enslavement, and torture on North Koreans in prison or detention. The UN COI stated that witnesses revealed that while “domestic violence is rife within DPRK society … violence against women is not limited to the home, and that it is common to see women being beaten and sexually assaulted in public.”
The Korea Institute for National Unification (KINU), a South Korean government think tank that specializes in research on North Korea, conducted a survey with 1,125 North Koreans (31.29 percent men and 68.71 percent women) who re-settled in South Korea between 2010 and 2014. The survey found that 37.7 percent of the respondents said sexual harassment and rape of inmates at detention facilities was “common,” including 15.9 percent that considered it “very common.” Thirty-three women said they were raped at detention and prison facilities, 51 said they witnessed rapes in such facilities, and 25 said they heard of such cases. The assailants identified by the respondents were police agents–45.6 percent; guards–17.7 percent; secret police (bowiseong) agents –13.9 percent; and fellow detainees–1.3 percent. The 2014 KINU survey found 48.6 percent of the respondents said that rape and sexual harassment against women in North Korea was “common.”
The North Koreans we spoke with stressed that women are socialized to feel powerless to demand accountability for sexual abuse and violence, and to feel ashamed when they are victims of abuse. They said the lack of rule of law and corresponding support systems for survivors leads most victims to remain silent–not seek justice and often not even talk about their experiences.
While most of our interviewees left North Korea between2011 and 2016, and many of the abuses date from a year or more before their departure, all available evidence suggests that the abuses and near-total impunity enjoyed by perpetrators continue to the present.
In July 2017, the North Korean government told the UN committee that monitors the implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) that just nine people in all of North Korea were convicted of rape in 2008, seven in 2011, and five in 2015. The government said that the numbers of male perpetrators convicted for the crime of forcing a woman who is his subordinate to have sexual intercourse was five in 2008, six in 2011, and three in 2015. While North Korean officials seem to think such ridiculously low numbers show the country to be a violence-free paradise, the numbers are a powerful indictment of their utter failure to address sexual violence in the country.
Sexual Abuse in Prisons and Detention Facilities
Human Rights Watch interviewed eight former detainees or prisoners who said they experienced a combination of verbal and sexual violence, harsh questioning, and humiliating treatment by investigators, detention facility personnel, or prison guards that belong to the police or the secret police (bowiseong).
Six interviewees had experienced sexual, verbal, and physical abuse in pre-trial detention and interrogation facilities (kuryujang)–jails designed to hold detainees during their initial interrogations, run by the MSS or the police. They said secret police or police agents in charge of their personal interrogation touched their faces and their bodies, including their breasts and hips, either through their clothes or by putting their hands inside their clothes.
Human Rights Watch also documented cases of two women who were sexually abused at a temporary holding facility (jipkyulso) while detainees were being transferred from interrogation facilities (kuryujang) to detention facilities in the detainees’ home districts.
Sexual Abuse of Women Engaged in Trade
Human Rights Watch interviewed four women traders who experienced sexual violence, including rape, assault, and sexual harassment, as well as verbal abuse and intimidation, by market gate-keeper officials. We also interviewed 17 women who were sexually abused or experienced unwanted sexual advances by police or other officials as they traveled for their work as traders. Although seeking income outside the command economy was illegal, women started working as traders during the mass famine of the 1990s as survival imperatives led many to ignore the strictures of North Korea’s command economy. Since many married women were not obliged to attend a government-established workplace, they became traders and soon the main breadwinners for their families. But pursuing income in public exposed them to violence.
Traders and former government officials told us that in North Korea traders are often compelled to pay bribes to officials and market regulators, but for women the “bribes” often include sexual abuse and violence, including rape. Perpetrators of abuses against women traders include high-ranking party officials, managers at state-owned enterprises, and gate-keeper officials at the markets and on roads and check-points, such as police, bowiseong agents, prosecutors, soldiers, and railroad inspectors on trains.
Women who had worked as traders described unwanted physical contact that included indiscriminately touching their bodies, grabbing their breasts and hips, trying to touch them underneath their skirts or pants, poking their cheeks, pulling their hair, or holding their bodies in their arms. The physical harassment was often accompanied by verbal abuse and intimidation. Women also said it was common for women to try to help protect each other by sharing information about such things, such as which house to avoid because it is rumored that the owner is a rapist or a child molester, which roads not to walk on alone at night, or which local high-ranking official most recently sexually preyed upon women.
Our research confirms a trend already identified in the UN COI report:
Officials are not only increasingly engaging in corruption in order to support their low or non-existent salaries, they are also exacting penalties and punishment in the form of sexual abuse and violence as there is no fear of punishment. As more women assume the responsibility for feeding their families due to the dire economic and food situation, more women are traversing through and lingering in public spaces, selling and transporting their goods.
The UN COI further found “the male dominated state, agents who police the marketplace, inspectors on trains, and soldiers are increasingly committing acts of sexual assault on women in public spaces” and “received reports of train guards frisking women and abusing young girls onboard.” This was described as “the male dominated state preying on the increasingly female-dominated market.”
Almost all of the women interviewed by Human Rights Watch with trading experience said the only way not to fall prey to extortion or sexual harassment while conducting market activities was to give up hopes of expanding one’s business and barely scrape by, be born to a powerful father with money and connections, marry a man with power, or become close to one.
Lack of Remedies
Only one of the survivors of sexual violence Human Rights Watch interviewed for this report said she had tried to report the sexual assault. The other women said they did not report it because they did not trust the police and did not believe police would be willing to take action. The women said the police do not consider sexual violence a serious crime and that it is almost inconceivable to even consider going to the police to report sexual abuse because of the possible repercussions. Family members or close friends who knew about their experience also cautioned women against going to the authorities.
Eight former government officials, including a former police officer, told Human Rights Watch that cases of sexual abuse or assault are reported to police only when there are witnesses and, even then, the reports invariably are made by third parties and not by the women themselves. Only seven of the North Korean women and men interviewed by Human Rights Watch were aware of cases in which police had investigated sexual violence and in all such cases the victims had been severely injured or killed.
All of the North Koreans who spoke to Human Rights Watch said the North Korean government does not provide any type of psycho-social support services for survivors of sexual violence and their families. To make matters worse, they said, the use of psychological or psychiatric services itself is highly stigmatized.
Two former North Korean doctors and a nurse who left after 2010 said there are no protocols for medical treatment and examination of victims of sexual violence to provide therapeutic care or secure medical evidence. They said there are no training programs for medical practitioners on sexual assault and said they never saw a rape victim go to the hospital to receive treatment.
Discrimination Against Women
Sex discrimination and subordination of women are pervasive in North Korean. Everyone in North Korea is subjected to a socio-political classification system, known as songbun, that grouped people from its creation into “loyal,” “wavering,” or “hostile” classes. But a woman’s classification also depends, in critical respects, on that of her male relatives, specifically her father and her father’s male relations and, upon marriage, that of her husband and his male relations. A woman’s position in society is lower than a man’s, and her reputation depends largely on maintaining an image of “sexual purity” and obeying the men in her family.
The government is dominated by men. According to statistics provided by the DPRK government to the UN, as of 2016 women made up just 20.2 percent of the deputies selected, 16.1 percent of divisional directors in government bodies, 11.9 percent of judges and lawyers, 4.9 percent of diplomats, and 16.5 per cent of the officials in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
On paper, the DPRK says that it is committed to gender equality and women and girl’s rights. The Criminal Code criminalizes rape of women, trafficking in persons, having sexual relations with women in a subordinate position, and child sexual abuse. The 2010 Law on the Protection and Promotion of the Rights of Women bans domestic violence. North Korea has also ratified five international human rights treaties, including ones that address women and girl’s rights and equality, such as the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and CEDAW.
During a meeting of a North Korean delegation with the CEDAW Committee, which reviewed North Korean compliance between 2002 and 2015, government officials argued all of the elements of CEDAW had been included in DPRK’s domestic laws. However, under questioning by the committee, the officials were unable to provide the definition of “discrimination against women” employed by the DPRK.
Park Kwang Ho, Councilor of the Central Court in the DPRK, stated that if a woman in a subordinate position was forced to engage in sexual relations for fear of losing her job or in exchange for preferential treatment, it was her choice as to whether or not she complied. Therefore, he argued, in such a situation the punishment for the perpetrator should be lighter. He later amended his statement to say that if she did not consent to having sexual relations, and was forced to do so, the perpetrator was committing rape and would be punished accordingly.
▻https://www.hrw.org/report/2018/10/31/you-cry-night-dont-know-why/sexual-violence-against-women-north-korea
#abus_sexuels #violence_sexuelle #viols #Corée_du_nord #femmes #rapport
’They considered us toys’: North Korean women reveal extent of sexual violence | World news | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/01/north-korea-women-sexual-violence-report
Women in North Korea are routinely subjected to sexual violence by government officials, prison guards, interrogators, police, prosecutors, and soldiers, according to a new report, with groping and unwanted advances a part of daily life for women working in the country’s burgeoning black markets.
The widespread nature of abuse by North Korea officials was documented in a new report by Human Rights Watch that interviewed 54 people who fled North Korea since 2011, the year Kim Jong-un came to power. It took more than two years amass the stories collected in the report, with subjects interviewed in countries across Asia.
]]>#Kaesong entre deux Corées
En février 2016, la Corée du Sud décide de fermer le complexe industriel intercoréen de Kaesong pour protester contre les #essais_nucléaires et balistiques nord-coréens. Elle n’avait pas fait auparavant de la #dénucléarisation un préalable à la collaboration des deux Corées – un changement de cap qui pourrait se révéler peu judicieux.
Corée : un dégel sous la menace d’un revirement des États-Unis | Lutte de classe #mensuelLO
▻https://mensuel.lutte-ouvriere.org/2018/05/05/coree-un-degel-sous-la-menace-dun-revirement-des-etats-unis_
Soixante-cinq ans après la fin de la guerre de #Corée qui a partagé le pays, on a vu le 27 avril dernier les dirigeants des deux États coréens officiellement toujours en guerre se rencontrer au poste-frontière de Panmunjom, dans la zone dite démilitarisée, pour parler de paix et s’amuser devant les caméras à franchir la fameuse frontière, dans un sens et dans un autre. Donald #Trump, le président américain, dirigeant de la puissance tutélaire du régime du Sud depuis sa création, s’est réjoui de cette rencontre en s’en attribuant le mérite, lui qui quelques mois auparavant menaçait de destruction la #Corée_du_Nord. Tout cela illustre à quel point le danger de guerre nucléaire, évoqué autant par le dirigeant nord-coréen #Kim_Jong_un que par Trump, était de la mise en scène de part et d’autre...
]]>Tu crois que t’as touché le fond, mais y a toujours plus profond, et c’est là que se trouve la préfecture :
#France #Corée_du_nord #asile #migrations #réfugiés #pays_sûr #réfugiés_nord-coréens
cc @reka @isskein
Four possible outcomes in Korea – Sasha Trubetskoy
▻https://sashat.me/2018/05/06/four-possible-outcomes-in-korea
Je n’y crois pas mais je référence pour le archives.
The Panmunjom Declaration is an exciting step towards peace on the Korean peninsula—a goal many have worked hard towards across many decades. We have forecasted four scenarios of potential developments as a result of future summits, closed-door deliberations, and agreements. A realistic view of current developments would mean that the future most likely lies somewhere between Scenarios 1 and 2.
]]>Japan, China and South Korea hold talks on North Korea and trade - World Socialist Web Site
▻https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/05/11/asia-m11.html
Leaders of Japan, China and South Korea met in Tokyo on Wednesday in their first trilateral summit for two-and-half years. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang and South Korean President Moon Jae-in held talks on North Korea, as well as trade in the region. The three leaders each held one-on-one meetings with their counterparts on the sidelines.
The summit was portrayed as a renewal of relations between the three countries. Li is the first Chinese leader to visit Japan in seven years, while Moon is the first South Korean president to do so in six-and-a-half years.
#corée_du_nord #japon #chine #corée_du_sud
In a joint statement, the three said they “strongly hope that, building on the results of the Inter-Korean summit, further efforts by relevant parties, in particular through the upcoming US-DPRK (North Korea) Summit, will contribute to comprehensive resolution of concerns of the parties for peace and stability in the region.”
]]>Les connexions maritimes de la Corée du Nord. Recompositions territoriales dans la péninsule Coréenne et dynamiques régionales en Asie du Nord-Est | Cairn.info
►https://www.cairn.info/revue-espace-geographique-2008-3-page-208.htm
Les connexions maritimes de la Corée du Nord. Recompositions territoriales dans la péninsule Coréenne et dynamiques régionales en Asie du Nord-Est
parCésar Ducruet
Erasmus University Rotterdam
ducruet.at.few.eur.nl
etValérie Gelézeau
École des hautes études en sciences sociales
gelezeau.at.ehess.fr
etStanislas Roussin
Seric Corée
roussin.at.seric-coree.com
]]>North Korea’s nuclear test site has collapsed ... and that may be why Kim Jong-un suspended tests | South China Morning Post
▻http://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2143171/north-koreas-nuclear-test-site-has-collapsed-and-may-be-why-kim-jong-un
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North Korea’s mountain nuclear test site has collapsed, putting China and other nearby nations at unprecedented risk of radioactive exposure, two separate groups of Chinese scientists studying the issue have confirmed.
The collapse after five nuclear blasts may be why North Korean leader Kim Jong-un declared last Friday that he would freeze the hermit state’s nuclear and missile tests and shut down the site, one researcher said.
The last five of Pyongyang’s six nuclear tests have all been carried out under Mount Mantap at the Punggye-ri nuclear test site in North Korea’s northwest.
A research team led by Wen Lianxing, a geologist with the University of Science and Technology of China in Hefei, concluded the collapse occurred following the detonation last autumn of North Korea’s most powerful thermal nuclear warhead in a tunnel about 700 metres (2,296 feet) below the mountain’s peak.
The test turned the mountain into fragile fragments, the researchers found.
Ah ! souvenirs de Beryl…
]]>Two Koreas Discuss Official End to 68-Year War, Report Says - Bloomberg
▻https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-17/two-koreas-discuss-announcing-end-to-military-conflict-munhwa-jg35w9vf
No peace treaty has been signed to replace the 1953 armistice that ended the Korean War, and the U.S. and North Korea have been at loggerheads since formal hostilities ended. A successful summit between Moon and Kim could pave the way for a meeting between Kim and U.S. President Donald Trump — the first between a sitting American president and a North Korean leader.
]]>#Corée_du_Nord : questions sur un extravagant sommet Trump-Kim
▻https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/international/270318/coree-du-nord-questions-sur-un-extravagant-sommet-trump-kim
Kim Jong-un, au centre. © Korean central news agency Selon l’agence Bloomberg, le dirigeant nord-coréen #Kim_Jong-Un est à Pékin depuis lundi. Au menu des discussions : un possible sommet avec #Donald_Trump sur la question de la dénucléarisation de la Corée du Nord. Des rencontres préparatoires viennent aussi d’être organisées en Finlande et en Suède. Le sommet est prévu fin mai. Se tiendra-t-il ? Des questions cruciales doivent au préalable être réglées.
]]>Cartoonist #Choi_Seong-guk: Expression that breaks down barriers
Choi says that prejudice is the biggest concern facing North Korean defectors in the South, and works to challenge this through his popular online cartoon strip, Rodong Shimmun: The Enthusiastic Resettlement Diaries of a Male North Korean Defector.
#Air_Koryo steps up Beijing, Shanghai flight schedules | NK News - North Korea News
▻https://www.nknews.org/2018/03/air-koryo-steps-up-beijing-shanghai-flight-schedules
Air Koryo steps up Beijing, Shanghai flight schedules
Shanghai route hasn’t flown since August 2017, NK Pro Aviation Tracker data shows
]]>En Corée, les pom-pom girls venues du Nord mettent le Sud mal à l’aise
▻https://www.franceinter.fr/monde/en-coree-les-pom-pom-girls-venues-du-nord-mettent-le-sud-mal-a-l-aise
Non seulement les pom-pom girls nord-coréennes donnent de la voix, toutes habillées de la même couleur, elles dansent aussi suivant une chorégraphie aussi millimétrée que leurs sourires. Et il faut bien avouer qu’elle assure le spectacle, aussi bien sur les sites des épreuves olympiques en Corée du Sud, que dans le reste du monde. Une simple recherche sur YouTube permet ainsi de tomber sur de nombreuses vidéos de leurs performances, parfois admiratives, parfois moqueuses.
]]>Northern accent: Urbanism and ephemera in North Korea | Thinkpiece | Architectural Review
▻https://www.architectural-review.com/rethink/reviews/books/northern-accent-urbanism-and-ephemera-in-north-korea/10027572.article
Going beyond military threat, famine and dictatorship discussions, two new books give a more multi-faceted sense of North Korea
Pyongyang is commonly imagined as the ultimate Potemkin city. A supercharged amalgamation of Mao’s Beijing, Stalin’s Moscow and Walt’s Disneyland, arranged around stupefying axes leading to enormous monuments to the Kims, and to the ‘Juche Idea’ (roughly translated as ‘Self-Reliance’, Juche replaced Marxism-Leninism as North Korea’s official ideology at the end of the 1970s), with people starving behind the curtain. Explanations have to be sought for the apparent splendour of this capital in a country which is assumed to be economically dysfunctional. Urban myths are reinforced by the tight regulation of foreign visits – for instance, it was widely (and wrongly) believed that Pyongyang’s palatial Moscow-style Metro only had two stops, as these were the only stations tourists were allowed to see. Two new books try to go beyond the ultra-totalitarian surface, to give a more multi-faceted sense of what Pyongyang is actually like.
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Outrage: Zones charting unhappy political realities should not be turned into tasteless tourist spectacles | Thinkpiece | Architectural Review
▻https://www.architectural-review.com/rethink/campaigns/outrage/outrage-zones-charting-unhappy-political-realities-should-not-be-turned-into-tasteless-tourist-spectacles/10027679.article
Separating North and South Korea, the curious no man’s land of the Demilitarised Zone has become a political theme park
It was difficult to see the view from the panoramic terrace as the fifth coachload of tourists arrived at the Dora Observatory in South Korea, jostling to gawp at the evil empire to the north. A long rank of coin-operated telescopes stood lined up, pointing towards North Korea like a battery of guns poised to fire, while loud-speakers pumped out garish K-Pop tunes at full volume. ‘You’ll notice there are fewer trees in the north’, said one American tourist, as crowds of selfie-stick wielding visitors posed for photos. ‘That’s because people there are so hungry they have to eat them.’
]]>Fragile détente olympique entre les deux Corées
▻https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/international/180118/fragile-detente-olympique-entre-les-deux-corees
À la sortie du pont de la grande unification, au sud de la zone démilitarisée qui sépare les deux Corées, lundi 15 janvier 2017. © Reuters Après une année 2017 explosive, les deux Corées ont entamé une timide désescalade. Pour Séoul, qui s’efforçait depuis des mois de convaincre Pyongyang, ces premiers pas sont une occasion de parvenir, à long terme, à une solution négociée à la crise nucléaire.
]]>Running out of time | John J. Hamre - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
▻https://thebulletin.org/running-out-time11368
I am dismayed by our rhetoric in Washington. We are talking like frightened little rabbits, afraid of a wolf in the forest. We have nothing to be afraid of, and the more we act like frightened little critters, the more we reward North Korea for pursuing a dead-end strategy. We tried a policy of dissuasion for the past 15 years, and it has failed. But a strategy of deterrence has worked and will continue to work.
(John J. Hamre was elected president and chief executive officer of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in January 2000. Before joining CSIS, he served as the 26th US deputy secretary of defense.)
]]>Toujours les petits carnets... Mais qu’écrivent-ils donc ?
▻https://www.nrk.no/urix/russisk-ros-til-tillerson-etter-nord-korea-invitasjon-1.13824009
Nord-Koreas leder Kim Jong-un inspiserer et nyoppusset hotell i Ryanggang-provinsen. Bildet ble offentliggjort denne måneden.
Foto : - / AFP
]]>Myko Clelland @DapperHistorian
A 1934 Propaganda map, showing the dire threat Germany was under from Czech aircraft. The truth? Czechoslovakia had no bombers at this point in history.
]]>North Korean ‘ghost ships’ are washing up on the shores of Japan. Why? - The Washington Post
▻https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/north-koreanghost-ships-are-washing-up-on-the-shores-of-japan-why/2017/12/06/261e60ea-da89-11e7-8e5f-ccc94e22b133_story.html
TOKYO — Three more empty boats were found along Japan’s west coast on Thursday, a day when the snow and the rain made sure the temperature never really rose above freezing. Two bodies reduced to skeletons were found near one, which was upturned on the shore near the city of Oga.
Another boat, much bigger, was found not far away. And the third, bearing Korean writing, was caught in fishing nets near Sado Island, just off the west coast.
The previous day, an equally freezing Wednesday, a rickety old wooden boat that also bore a sign in Korean was found bucking around in the rough seas. Discovered nearby: two bodies.
Another body, mostly just bones, was found up the coast in Akita prefecture Tuesday. Before that, three bodies were recovered near a wooden boat — two of them wearing pins showing the face of Kim Il Sung, the “eternal president” of North Korea.
Almost every day for the past month, grisly discoveries like these have been made all along Japan’s western coastline, across the sea from North Korea. One boat even had a slogan in Korean declaring: “September is a boat accident prevention month.”
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The escalation in the war of words between U.S. president Donald Trump and North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, has already produced many hysterical headlines about the threat of a nuclear war – and, even, of a new world war. And indeed, this is precisely what would appear to be the implication of Trump’s reactions to North Korea’s ostentatious missile launches and nuclear experiments, if his reactions were to be taken at face value – for instance, his promise to respond “with fire and fury like the world has never seen.” Especially so, as all rich countries’ governments have been unreservedly lining up behind Trump’s condemnations, including those which expressed some timid reservations about his bellicose threats.
But then, what seems to be a rather insane contest between the two leaders to raise the stakes with each other is one thing – but real world politics is quite another. So, while American U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley was dutifully upholding Trump’s line by accusing North Korea of “begging for war” and stating that “the time for talking is over,” Trump’s secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, was declaring to the media that the U.S. administration was in direct contact with North Korea through multiple channels. And although Tillerson’s statement was immediately disowned by Trump, tweeting that he was “wasting his time trying to negotiate with Little Rocket Man” and asking him to “save your energy, Rex, we’ll do what has to be done,” Tillerson’s admission was probably a more accurate reflection of what is really happening behind the scenes.
Indeed, whatever their rhetoric, neither Trump nor, of course, Kim Jong-un has any interest in triggering a war, which would be politically costly for the former and suicidal for the latter. Nor is the present standoff simply due to the “loose cannon” policy underpinned by Trump’s aggressive “tweets,” or Kim Jong-un’s alleged “paranoia.”
In the meantime, however, a raft of new U.N. sanctions have been...
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