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Tag Archives: Kim Jong-Un
South Korea on strike, North Korea on ‘ice’
Over 100,000 South Koreans, mainly workers, demonstrated in Seoul. North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un had his uncle, Jang Sung-thaek, executed, accused of selling off part of North Korea to foreigners and of drug trafficking. Continue reading
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Tagged China, crystal meth, drug trafficking, Jang Sung-thaek, Ju Hyun-woo, Kim Jong-Un, KORAIL, Korean Confederation of Trade Unions, Korean Railroad Corp., Kyunghang, labor, methamphetamine, National Intelligence Service, North Korea, Park Geun-hye, privatization, Rason Special Economic Zone, Russia, South Korea, students, Why We Aren’t Fine!, workers
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Escape from Camp 14
Escape from Camp 14 is the story of Shin Dong-hyuk, the only person born in a North Korean slave labor camp to escape, doing so at the age of 23 in 2005. Shin’s life is testament to the putrid essence of that militarized, state-capitalist totalitarian society. Continue reading
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Tagged Blaine Hardin, China, criminal injustice system, dialectics, Escape from Camp 14, Joseph Stalin, Kim Il-sung, Kim Jong-Un, Mao Zedong, North Korea, Park Yong Chul, Political Repression, prisoners, reeducation camps, Shin Dong, Shin Dong-hyuk (human rights activist), slave labor, torture
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Kim dynasty drags on
From the January-February 2012 issue of News & Letters: World in View Kim dynasty drags on by Gerry Emmett The body of late North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il will be placed on display in Pyongyang, beside that of his father … Continue reading
January-February 2012 issue of News & Letters now available on the web
New issue is available on the web. News & Letters, Vol. 57, No. 1 January-February 2012 You may view this issue of News & Letters in pdf form here Lead Widening labor and peasant revolts threaten Chinese rulers Protests began in September … Continue reading
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Tagged 2010 Haiti earthquake, Abigail Borah, absolute negativity, Africa, Anders Behring Breivik, Angye Gaona, Arab spring, Asia, Black Skin White Masks, Brother to Brother, China, climate change, dialectic, Durban, economic crisis, Frantz Fanon, global warming, Gordon Hirabayashi, Guy Debord, Japanese internment, Ken Knabb, Kim Jong-il, Kim Jong-Un, L Boogie, labor, Martina Noel Davis-Correia, National Defense Authorization Act, NATO/G8, News and Letters Committees, North Korea, Occupy Chicago, Occupy Movement, Occupy Oakland, Occupy Wall Street, Pariah, peasant revolt, Post Office, Postal Service, postal workers, revolution, sexual harassment, Situationist International, Syria, teachers, women's liberation, workers, Wukan
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