That's:
The Honorable Mr. Roh Moo-hynn, President
1 Cheong Wa Dae
Seoul, Korea
HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY everybody.
With LIBERTY and JUSTICE for all.
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See:
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Great post, Aloha Ronnie! And a most happy Independence Day to you and yours!
is CHANH 'Tony' HUU NGUYEN still there. Has the new administration done anything?
This is all new to me.
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Here's a 4th of July Independence Day "ALOHA" to you all.
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Happy Independence Day, JHA.
Here's a flower for you.
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Thank you for posting this information. I will write and mail a letter tomorrow morning.
Thanks for bringing this to our attention!
Happy Independence Day to you as well!
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New Thread:
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Here's a 'Free Chanh Nguyen' now bump for you.
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Found this in a cache. Just posting it here for safe keeping.
** COSTA RICA [non]. STRONG LOSES JOB AS U.N. ENVOY --- CONTRACT
EXPIRES, NOT RENEWED --- Concerns raised in oil-for-food probe
EDITH LEDERER, ASSOCIATED PRESS Jul. 19, 2005. 01:00 AM
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UNITED NATIONS --- Canadian businessman Maurice Strong lost his job as
the top U.N. envoy to North Korea amid questions about his connection
to a suspect in the U.N. oil-for-food scandal, the world body said
yesterday.
The decision not to renew Maurice Strong's contract follows criticism
that he gave his stepdaughter a job at the United Nations and concerns
over his ties to a South Korean businessman accused of accepting
kickbacks from Saddam Hussein's government.
Deputy U.N. spokesperson Marie Okabe said in response to a question
that Strong's contract expired last week "and it has not been
renewed." She initially gave no reason, but said later "if he is
cleared of any involvement in the oil-for-food program, the secretary-
general will consider availing himself of Mr. Strong's expertise on an
informal basis."
Strong, 76, denied he had been terminated, saying he told U.N.
Secretary-General Kofi Annan when his contract was renewed for six
months in January that he did not want another extension because "I'm
at an age and stage where I can't go on forever."
"As arranged long before any of these other questions had arisen, my
understanding was that I would complete my assignment and would
continue to be available to provide any further advice, but could not
continue in the more operational role that I had had," he said in a
telephone interview.
Strong, who had been the U.N. pointman on six-party talks aimed at
persuading North Korea to abandon its nuclear weapons programs, took
temporary leave from his part-time post April 20 during an
investigation of his ties to businessman Tongsun Park.
The next day his stepdaughter, Christina Mayo, resigned after a U.N.
review discovered she had worked at the U.N. for her stepfather for
two years. U.N. staff regulations in most cases prohibit the hiring of
immediate family members.
Park, a native of North Korea and citizen of South Korea, was charged
by the U.S. Attorney's Office in April with allegedly accepting
millions of dollars from Saddam's government to lobby illegally for
Iraq in the United States on behalf of the oil-for-food program.
Strong said Park had advised him on Korean issues, but he again denied
any involvement with the $64 billion (U.S.) humanitarian program in
Iraq. He has pledged to co-operate with an oil-for-food inquiry led by
former U.S. Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker who is expected to
issue three more reports by the end of September.
Prosecutors say Park met an unidentified U.N. official in an apparent
effort to influence the design of the oil-for-food program and
invested $1 million in a company run by the official's son. Strong
acknowledged that Park invested money in an oil company, Cordex
Petroleum, in which he and his family had a significant interest.
Strong had been involved in U.N. environment and development issues
since 1970 and in January, 1997, was appointed a senior adviser to
Annan on reforming the organization.
Strong, who was born in Oak Lake, Man., is former president of Power
Corp. of Canada (Toronto Star via Carlos Coimbra, ON, DXLD)
Huh? I've got an idea. Howabout we withdraw all our forces from Korea unless they release this man pronto? Is there any a-hole in Asia that the South Korean government won't kiss?
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Monday, July 10, 2006
Seeking Vietnamese activist's release
500 in Garden Grove demand that South Korea free activist Chanh Huu Nguyen.
By SCOTT MARTINDALE
The Orange County Register
GARDEN GROVE - "He is not a criminal! He is not a terrorist!" the Rev. Kee Hwang shouted as he led 500 protesters down Brookhurst Street.
Waving flags and holding up signs, the mostly Vietnamese and Korean crowd rallied Sunday for the release of Chanh Huu Nguyen, an anticommunist activist being detained in South Korea on allegations that he leads a Garden Grove-based terrorist organization.
Nguyen, 57, has been detained in Seoul since April on behalf of the Vietnamese government, which plans to have Nguyen extradited and charge him with terrorist activities, including failed plots to bomb Vietnamese embassies in the Philippines and Thailand.
Korea's high court will hold a hearing Thursday on Nguyen's alleged links to terrorism. At the hearing, the Vietnamese government plans to present at least one witness who will testify against Nguyen, his family said.
Nguyen's supporters say the communist government invented the charges so it could take Nguyen into custody and put a stop to his anticommunist activities.
The U.S. government does not include Nguyen's organization on its terrorist watch list, and he can travel freely into and out of the United States.
"Do you think the FBI, the CIA don't know about a terrorist organization right here (in Garden Grove)?" said Nguyen's son, Vinh Nguyen, 30.
Nguyen is a founder of The Government of Free Vietnam, a Garden Grove-based organization fighting human trafficking and the child sex trade in Vietnam.
From his home in Garden Grove, Nguyen also served as secretary-general of the Vietnamese National Party, an anticommunist political party based in Vietnam.
"He's the No. 1 enemy of Vietnam," Anaheim resident Dianne Vo, 30, said at the rally. "That's why they want to extradite him. It's all for political reasons."
In a written statement, the Vietnamese Embassy in Washington, D.C., called Nguyen's organization "a group of criminals who conduct terrorism activities in Vietnam."
The embassy also said Nguyen was wanted by international police liaison Interpol on charges of weapon smuggling and terrorism. Interpol officials could not be reached on Sunday.
In 2001, the Vietnamese government convicted 38 alleged followers of Nguyen of activities that included bomb plots and anti-government leafleting.
"We don't know these people. My father has never known them before in his life," his son, Vinh, said.
At the rally, speakers called on the U.S. government to intervene.
The U.S. Embassy in South Korea has refused to take action because Nguyen is not a U.S. citizen, his family said.
"To say that he's not an American citizen is a pretty transparent excuse," activist Dave Hernandez, a Vietnam War veteran, said at the rally. "The State Department needs to be called upon now to engage in this issue."
Nguyen has lost about 20 pounds during his three-month detainment in South Korea, but his mental health is good, his family said.
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