http://www.metafilter.com/tags/pyongyang+korea Posts tagged with 'pyongyang' and 'korea' at MetaFilter. Sat, 20 Jan 2007 23:01:49 -0800 Sat, 20 Jan 2007 23:01:49 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/57920/A%2DYear%2DIn%2DPyongyang <a href="http://www.aidanfc.net/a_year_in_pyongyang.html" title="'Fast forward five more years, to a spring day in 1995 when I suddenly caught up with an awful lot all at once. A package came in the university internal mail, from someone in physics that I didn't know, Hugh Hubbard. It was a book-length manuscript by one Andrew Holloway, describing his year in Pyongyang during 1987-88. He'd written it soon after his return, but for whatever reason had taken it no further. And now never would, for in January he'd died of stomach cancer. He wanted me to have a copy.'">A Year in Pyongyang</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2007:site.57920 Sat, 20 Jan 2007 23:01:49 -0800 dprk korea pyongyang stavrosthewonderchicken http://www.metafilter.com/56153/Pyongyang%2DRocks <a href="http://www.voiceofkorea.org/">Pyongyang Rocks!</a> If you are a band playing any kind of rock, including heavy metal, then you can participate in '<a href="http://www.voiceofkorea.org/">ROCK FOR PEACE</a>' in North Korea. What a blast! tag:metafilter.com,2006:site.56153 Wed, 08 Nov 2006 16:39:27 -0800 korea pyongyang Yakuman http://www.metafilter.com/42767/Bush%2Dmeets%2Dwith%2DNK%2Dgulag%2Dsurvivor%2Dauthor <a href="http://blog.marmot.cc/archives/2005/06/15/bush-and-the-nk-gulag-survivor-must-read/">Today,</a> Bush met with <a href="http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3071467/">Kang Chol Hwan</a>, a survivor of the North Korean prison camps and author of <a href="http://www.pyongyangsquare.com/resources/gulags.html">The Aquariums of Pyongyang</a>, a book Bush has <a href="http://www.usnews.com/usnews/opinion/baroneweb/mb_050526.htm">read</a> and given to his staffers. tag:metafilter.com,2005:site.42767 Tue, 14 Jun 2005 23:42:12 -0800 gulag Korea prison Pyongyang pandaharma http://www.metafilter.com/25482/War%2DProfiteering%2DOrdained%2Dby%2DProvidence <a href="http://www.fortune.com/fortune/articles/0,15114,447429,00.html">Former N. Korean Nuclear Contractors are</a> <i>"pretty sure that at some point Don was involved," since it was not unusual to seek help from board members "when we needed contacts with the U.S. government." </i> An article in yesterday's <i>Fortune</i> mentions and quotes a number of former employees/contractors for a Swiss engineering firm -- headed by <b>Donald Rumsfeld </b>at the time that Pyongyang began getting its nuke on. Nevertheless, <i>Today Rumsfeld, riding high after the Iraq war, is reportedly discussing a plan for "regime change" in North Korea. But his silence about the nuclear reactors raises questions about what he did--or didn't do--as an ABB director.</i> unsurprisingly, the media is <a href="http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&q=rumsfeld+north+korea+abb">not exactly </a>all over this. tag:metafilter.com,2003:site.25482 Wed, 30 Apr 2003 23:40:10 -0800 ABB brokenlink donaldrumsfeld korea nuclear pyongyang rumsfeld Ignatius J. Reilly