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Translation:"The resolution officially calling on President Bush and the State Department NOT to remove North Korea from the US List of State Sponsors of Terrorism (the so called "Terrorist Country List") has been introduced into the US Senate. It was introduced by Brownback and has three co-sponsors so far.It says that as long as North Korea holds international kidnap victims and does not release them, the US State Department should not remove North Korea from the terror list.It is a resolution, and is not binding on the President or US State Department. --Reporter Sakai"

Give Japan Its Due Carl Delfeld, Chartwell Advisor 11.20.07, 6:20 PM ET As part of a deal with North Korea in the six-party nuclear disarmament talks, President Bush has decided to take North Korea off the U.S. list of state sponsors of terror.This decision was made over the strong protests of Japan, primarily because of North Korea’s stonewalling on providing Japan with any information on a score of its citizens kidnapped by North Korea during the 1970s and 1980s. Some of the abductees were schoolchildren on their way home from school. Sure sounds like terror to me. Meanwhile, North Korea...

[North Korean agent apparantly riled up, over the weekend, at the attention he has generated from Japanese reporters in Jakarta] Charles Robert Jenkins, a US Army sergeant, defected to North Korea in 1965, near his post along the DMZ. He is considered a deserter by the US government.After nearly 40 years in North Korea however, he and his two children were allowed by risk-taker and dictator Kim Jong-il to go to non-extradition treaty Indonesia on Friday, to meet his separated Japanese wife, who was kidnapped by North Korean agents years ago, and was able to get out of North...