Asian News Part II 4/12/2007

Chinese PM calls for close ties with Japan.

North Korea replaces its prime minister.

U.S. retrieves soldiers' remains.

All eyes on North Korea nuke action.

Asian News 4/11/2007

I am going to keep down to a list today. There are many good articles. Check out the ones that interest you.

N. Korea funds impasse resolved.
Tokyo re-elects nationalist governor.
U.S. presses N. Korea to shut reactor.
Navy plans massive war games off Guam.
Report: Asia upgrading military.
China, Japan pledge closer ties.
Japanese PM sets 1st visit to U.S..
Malaysian political bloggers form alliance.

Have a nice day.

News from Darfur, Sudan

There is an article by the name of "Soldiers bar U.N. official from Darfur refugee camp. In this article, they discuss the fact that al-Bashir, president of Sudan, refuses to allow the UN Inspector into Darfur to check out complaints of more genocide.

Now that they have refused them entry, there comes another article about China, Russia; Arab, Muslim states object to Darfur report. They claim that since they did not actually witness the genocide, therefore the report is unfair.

I have an idea. Why don't we start torturing every prisoner at Gitmo and refuse everyone entrance? Why don't we bomb Mecca? We could always say it was not us.

Ah, but there is quite a difference between them and us, and that difference is the reason why it is time to close down the UN. They can longer serve their original purpose: PREVENT/STOP GENOCIDE. We do NOT do these things because we are civilized.

I am afraid we have become SO civilized that we have forgotten how to fight...

For the links above: If they do not work, try this one for the UN officials barred and this one for the arrogant scum who wish the people in Darfur to be wiped off the map.

Hardly known, not yet forgotten: S. Korean POWs tell their story

From the desk of RFA:

SEOUL — Thousands of South Koreans taken prisoner by the North during the Korean War (1950-53) were sent to do hard labor and were refused the chance to be repatriated under international law.

Those who survived the working conditions found they were still subjected to contempt and discrimination, 50 years after the end of the war.

“One day I found it rather strange that I could not hear the sound of airplanes overhead. Later, I found out the reason the skies had fallen silent: the war was over,” POW Cho Chang-Ho told RFA’s Korean service shortly before his death.

While 80,000 South Koreans were missing...continue reading.

I cannot believe they would choose to stay in North Korea unless it was out of fear of trickery. Animals. I hate this.

Japan war leaders turned spies

This is a very difficult article for me to write. I was not alive, I do not know that much about it; but that is not what makes it difficult. I have avoided history most of life because I could not bear the pain, the suffering, the hatred, the loss, to achieve a victory that was never promised.

I am referring to the Bataan Death March, for one. This is one of the items discovered since the CIA has disclosed that the Japanese have been spying on everyone during the war. I would be surprised if they had not! I just hope they were a lot better at it than they are nowadays.

CNN has written an article titled, "CIA files: Japanese war leaders spied in Cold War." Here is a sample:

TOKYO, Japan (AP) -- Col. Masanobu Tsuji was a fanatical Japanese militarist and brutal warrior, hunted after World War II for massacres of Chinese civilians and complicity in the Bataan Death March.

And then he became a U.S. spy.

Newly declassified CIA records, released by the U.S. National Archives and examined by The Associated Press, document more fully than ever how Tsuji and other suspected Japanese war criminals were recruited by U.S. intelligence in the early days of the Cold War.

If that link is no longer available, try this one.

Sources: CNN, Baldie: Maj. Richard M. Gordon (USA Ret.)