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03/27/13--05:00: Will Seoul engage North Korea soon? by Chung Min-uck
[Korea Times correspondent Chung Min-uck interviews CanKor Brain Trust member Victor Hsu, Director of International Aid and Education at the South Korean state-run Korea Development Institute (KDI), and Bernhard Seliger, a Seoul resident representative of the Hanns Seidel Foundation, a German organization active in Korea. The two experts applaud the new South Korean President's “trustpolitik”, […]
erichweingartnerTrucks loaded with flour as relief aid to North Korea pass a checkpoint on a bridge over the Imjin River in the South Korean border city of Paju, Gyeonggi Province, in this Sept. 21, 2012, file photo. The Seoul government sent 500 tons of flour to the impoverished North in one of the lastest aid supplies under the previous Lee Myung-bak administration. (Photo by Korea Times)Bernhard Seliger (Photo by Hanns Seidel Foundation)
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04/12/13--13:55: DPRK Business Monthly Volume IV, No.2
The DPRK Business Monthly, an international business report edited in Beijing, has been made available to CanKor readers by its editor, Paul White. Please check the current March 2013 edition here: DPRK Business Monthly Volume IV, No.2 Titles of articles found in this issue include: P’yang Sues Taiwan Over Nuclear Waste Disposal Deal NK Seafood Exports Thriving China’s […]
erichweingartnerRural DPRK community with Red Cross kits (Photo by IFRC)More...More...
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0 04/19/13--05:00: Canadian NGO responds to BBC Panorama report on North Korea
[CanKor is often asked by journalists how to go about gaining access to North Korea. There was a time in the late 1990s when the DPRK experimented with allowing media to report on UN and NGO projects in the country. DPRK authorities quickly learned that market-driven Western media like to sensationalize the negative and ignore […]
erichweingartnerJohn Sweeney with DPRK military official at Panmunjom (frame capture from BBC documentary)
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0 04/24/13--05:00: Remembering the RAC, by Justin Rohrlich
[CanKor Editor Erich Weingartner talks to New York City based journalist Justin Rohrlich about the early days of the RAC, an expatriate bar and social club that attained a surprisingly worldwide reputation as a must-visit venue for foreign visitors in Pyongyang. This article was published on 23 April 2013 in NKNews.org. --CanKor] Remembering North Korea’s ‘Random […]
erich weingartner“This was the T-shirt we produced back then,” Weingartner says. “Don’t know if it was ever repeated. As you can see, no reference to ‘Random Access Club,’ haha. On the back of the shirt were the names of the agencies, both UN and NGO who were resident in North Korea at that time. 20 in all.”DPRK driver's licence, front and back. Erich Weingartner’s RAC membership card. The back of the card reads: “A member may invite max 2 guests at any one time. Members are responsible for their guests.”
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0 05/03/13--09:14: DPRK Business Monthly Volume IV, No.3
The DPRK Business Monthly, an international business report edited in Beijing, has been made available to CanKor readers by its editor, Paul White. Please check the current April 2013 edition here: DPRK Business Monthly Volume IV, No.3 Titles of articles found in this issue include: The Travails of a Beer Joint Venture North Korea’s Surprising Microbrewery Culture Explored […]
erichweingartnerJosh Thomas and Ms Yu, one of the North Korean guides, enjoy draft beers at the bar of the Yanggakdo Hotel Microbrewery. (Photo by Joseph A Ferris III)More...More...
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0 05/05/13--05:00: Has starvation become a foreign diplomacy tool?
[The Oregonian journalist Richard Read speaks to relief managers from Mercy Corps and Samaritan's Purse, who claim that the Obama administration has abandoned Ronald Reagan's “hungry-child policy” that separated food aid from politics. Read's article, reproduced below, first appeared in OregonLive.com on 13 April 2013. --CanKor] Relief managers from Portland-based Mercy Corps say U.S. let […]
erichweingartnerA North Korean mother lies with her acutely malnourished son, plagued by sores, at a county hospital in September 2011. (Photo by Jim White, Mercy Corps)
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0 05/06/13--17:00: What Park Geun-hye should say about North Korea in Washington, by Victor Hsu
[From time to time we reproduce posts from our partner site 38North, for CanKor readers who may not receive 38North updates. In this case, CanKor Brain Trust member Prof. Victor Hsu offers his take on what should be South Korean President Park Geun-hye's message to a joint meeting of the US Congress on Wednesday, 8 May […]
erichweingartnerPresident Park Geun-hye waves before leaving for the United States from Seoul Airport in Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province, Sunday. During her first foreign trip after becoming president, Park is scheduled to have a summit with U.S. President Barack Obama in Washington, Tuesday. (Korea Times photo by Koh Young-kwon)
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0 05/30/13--12:23: DPRK Business Monthly Volume IV, No.4
The DPRK Business Monthly, an international business report edited in Beijing, has been made available to CanKor readers by its editor, Paul White. Please check the current May 2013 edition here: DPRK Business Monthly Volume IV, No.4 Titles of articles found in this issue include: Sanctions on NK’s Foreign Trade Bank Could Affect Millions UNFPA […]
erichweingartnerManpho Yonha Power Station (Photo by KCNA)More...More...
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0 05/31/13--12:27: Reconciling the Human Factor, by Erich Weingartner
[This article, first published on our partner-website 38North on Tuesday, 28 May 2013, is based on presentations given at Glendon College, York University in Toronto in April, and at UCLA, Los Angeles in May. It represents CanKor's attempt to provide a framework for rational discussion among conflicting policy alternatives aimed at relieving the suffering of […]
erichweingartnerAuthor Erich Weingartner at the UCLA conference on Ending the Korean War (Photo by Kil Sang Yoon)
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0 06/05/13--12:44: Why North Korea places so much emphasis on organic farming, by Justin Rohrlich
[CanKor Editor Erich Weingartner and Brain Trust members Randall Ireson and Kathi Zellweger were among interviewees featured in this article by journalist Justin Rohrlich about North Korean farming practices. The resulting article was published on 31 May 2013 in NK News Pro. --CanKor]
“Let us thoroughly implement the Juche farming methods created by the fatherly […]
erichweingartnerPicture panel at Sambong Farm, Pyongwon County, DPRK (Photo by Erich Weingartner)
Randall Ireson (far right) at an agricultural seminar in Pyongyang with officials of the Ministry of Agriculture and the Academy of Agricultural Sciences (Photo by Erich Weingartner)
Experimental plots of the Organic Agriculture Development Association, located in Ssang-un farm in South Pyongan Province (Photo by Erich Weingartner)
Dr. Simon Numberger and Dr. Bernhard Seliger of the Hanns-Seidel Foundation on an organic farm, Pyongan-Namdo, Sookcheon County, with members of the Organic Agricultural Development Association and the University of Applied Science for Ecological Cultivation. (Photo by hss.or.kr)
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0 06/30/13--13:02: DPRK Business Monthly Volume IV, No.5
The DPRK Business Monthly, an international business report edited in Beijing, has been made available to CanKor readers by its editor, Paul White. Please check the current June 2013 edition (which this month comes in two files) here: DPRK Business Monthly Volume IV, No.5 Part 1 and DPRK Business Monthly Volume IV, No.5 Part 2 Titles […]
erichweingartnerThe nearly deserted Kaesong Industrial Complex (Photo by Arirang News)More...More...
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0 06/30/13--21:17: Testimony Before the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development, June 4, 2013
[On June 4, 2013, I was called as a witness to testify before the House of Commons Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development.
Below is the entirety of my prepared statement - I believe, there were some off the cuff remarks that probably drove the French language interpreters nuts.] Good afternoon, ladies and […]
jackeckimJack KimParliament-of-Canada
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0 07/27/13--13:07: What Works Best? by Erich Weingartner
There is a simple question I am often asked when speaking about humanitarian assistance: What works best with the DPRK? Simple questions don’t always result in simple answers, and when it comes to the DPRK, simple answers don’t exist. Actually, even simple questions turn out to be more complex when applied to the DPRK: What do […]
erichweingartnerNorth Korean children consuming donated food (Picture by Erich Weingartner)DPRK farming village (Photo by Erich Weingartner)Kindergarten children in Wonsan (Photo by EPD)
Young people on the streets of Pyongyang (Photo by Erich Weingartner)
Solar well (Photo by Dan Folta)
Installing pipes for safe drinking water (Photo by Dan Folta)
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0 12/03/13--12:19: Ecumenical Accompaniment for Building Justice and Peace in Korea by Erich Weingartner
[This article was written for a discussion on "The Korean Peninsula: Towards an Ecumenical Accompaniment for Building Justice and Peace" at the 10th General Assembly of the World Council of Churches, which took place in Busan, Republic of Korea, from 30 October to 8 November 2013.] The Korean War claimed millions of lives between 1950 […]
erichweingartnerSite of the 10th WCC Assembly in Busan, ROK
Chilgol Church in Pyongyang, amidst the high rises (Photo by EW)
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