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North Korea has created religion in its attempt to reject it PAUL ASAY Freedom News Service Monday May 7th, 2007 We all know North Korea’s Kim Jong Il is a happenin’ dude. He’s got the nukes. He’s got the hair. He’s got a basketball signed by Michael Jordan. And he’s got his very own worshippers, too. The North Korean state-sanctioned philosophy of Juche is the 10th-largest religion in the world with 19 million adherents, according to Adherents.com, a Web site that tracks world religions. It’s bigger than Judaism, bigger than Jainism, bigger than Baha’i. Sorry Tom Cruise, but it’s nearly...

What follows are the chief reasons why I support Zionism stated as briefly as possible. 1. Oppression of the Jews. The Jewish people are the most oppressed people in all History. Romans feeding Jews to the lions, pogroms in Russia & in Eastern Europe, the Spanish Inquisition, the Holocaust, anti-Semitic Palestinian terrorism, etc., all make this exceedingly clear. In proportion as the gentiles are so inclined to treat Jews in such a way, in that same proportion the feeling of equality and the existence of tolerance between Jews and gentiles are inconceivable. 2. Anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism This being the case,...

SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korea's communist government is urging women in the country to wear traditional Korean clothes instead of pants, according to a North Korean monthly magazine. "Keeping alive our dress style is a very important political issue to adhere to specific national cultural traditions at a time when the U.S. imperialists are maneuvering to spread the rotten bourgeois lifestyle inside North Korea," the Joson Yeosung (Woman) magazine said, according to South Korea's Yonhap news agency. The magazine said exotic dress dampens the revolutionary atmosphere in society and blurs national sentiment and asked the public to reject clothes...

Book Review of: Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam and the American Left, By David Horowitz, Regnery Publishing, Inc. 2004. 296 pp. The nature of political doublespeak never changes and its agenda is always the same: Obliteration of historical memory in the service of power…. Only a restored memory can demolish totalitarian myths and make men free. (David Horowitz, in Big Lies, Center for the Study of Popular Culture, 2005) At first sight, a merger of the secular political left and the Islamist radical believers is an anomaly. But this book carefully dissects the secret of their partnership: their shared hatred of...

North Korea and Venezuela should stand together US pressure and blackmail, North Korean parliament Vice-President Yang Hyong Sop recommended, as quoted by AP. Both nations "are subject to US high pressure and blackmail," Tang said, according to a note on the web page of the Venezuelan Vice-President's Office. The Korean lawmaker met Thursday with Venezuelan Vice-President José Vicente Rangel. "The (President George W.) Bush administration is plotting a lot to suppress our Democratic People's Republic of Korea and the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela," Yang said, according to the note. "Closer relations and friendship of both peoples to face in this...

/begin my translation The Coming Collapse of N. Korean Regime [Analysis by Kim Young-hwan, (the author of) 'On N. Korean Democratization'] Ideology and organization greatly weakened, 80% chance of collapse in 10 years[04/08/05 19:42] A scene from Romanian uprising in '89 The prediction of N. Korean collapse was made twice already. The first was in 1989, when communist regimes in Eastern Europe went down in a series, and the second, in 1994, when (N. Korean) president Kim Il-sung died. However, these two predictions had a serious flaw. At the time, N. Korea had few internal factors to cause a collapse....

Pyongyang, January 20 (KCNA) -- Eighty years have elapsed since President Kim Il Sung, in his teens, crossed the River Amnok, which Korea and China border, with a firm resolution to liberate the country occupied by the Japanese imperialists. Thirteen days after he left Mangyongdae in Pyongyang on January 22, Juche 14 (1925) for national liberation, he arrived at Phophyong on the bank of the river. Departing the motherland with bitter heart, he made a solemn resolution to come back to the motherland without fail after defeating the Japanese imperialists. He walked slowly towards the opposite side of the river...

Pyongyang, August 17 (KCNA) -- Workers and office employees of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea are enjoying summer holidays at rest homes together with their families. Nearly twenty reconstructed rest homes in Sokam, Lake Sohung, Onpho, Kuam and other scenic spots have received holiday-makers. The holiday-makers at the Onpho Rest Home in Kyongsong County, North Hamgyong Province, and the Majon Rest Home in Hamhung City, South Hamgyong Province, are playing various kinds of sports games and amusements and swimming and boating in the sea. The Kuam Rest Home in Hwayang-ri, Chongdan County, South Hwanghae Province, has also opened the...

<p>If you have ever started to emerge from one nightmare only to find yourself plunged into a new one, you will find the ordeal of Ri Song Dae frighteningly familiar.</p> <p>In August 2001, Ri entered Canada with his wife and their 6-year-old son, Chang Il. They were defectors from the monstrous dictatorship in North Korea and had come to Canada to seek asylum.</p>