Search Results: Kim Jong Il
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AUSTRALIA
- Duncan MacLaren
- 16 April 2013
9 Comments
We seem to think it is okay to publish pictures of Kim Jong-un with Mickey Mouse ears or refer to his late father Kim Jong-il as a 'pygmy'. Insulting a proud people, no matter how weird we think the regime is, does not win friends. The west would do well to remember this if it is to engage the regime in meaningful dialogue.
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MEDIA
Free speech is not at risk, and the media companies know it. Their real fears concern the proposed Public Interest Media Advocate's task to determine whether future mergers and acquisitions are in the public interest. The outcry is motivated by self-interest, not concern for the rights and freedoms of citizens.
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AUSTRALIA
- Binoy Kampmark
- 21 December 2011
2 Comments
He presided over a starving nation, created an unstable nuclear state, and terrified his neighbours. But the death of Kim Jong-il should cause neither terror nor concern as much as the experts would have it.
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CARTOON
- Fiona Katauskas
- 21 December 2011
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MEDIA
North Koreans admire their glorious leader and his visionary ministers, despite their poor economic and human rights record. By contrast, most Australians despise the current Labor Government, despite the high esteem with which it is regarded internationally. How can this be?
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AUSTRALIA
As the world watches the ongoing catastrophe in Syria, state-sponsored destruction of a much quieter but no less brutal kind is afflicting North Korea. Even while the country anticipates next year's 100th birthday of state founder and 'Eternal President' Kim Il-sung, NGOs are reporting that it may have run out of food.
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INTERNATIONAL
- Duncan MacLaren
- 25 November 2010
5 Comments
I have two lasting memories of North Korea. The first was the obstetrics unit of a hospital; it looked like a medieval torture chamber. The second was orphanages where malnourished 14-year-olds looked only eight. The latest escalation of tension can only mean such sights will become more frequent.
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AUSTRALIA
- Joseph Camilleri
- 30 October 2006
8 Comments
The North Korean regime is more likely to be loosened from its present grip on power by the slow but persistent attempts to change the economic and psychological landscape inside North Korea, than by the external application of brute force.
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AUSTRALIA
- Gavan McCormack
- 04 July 2006
Encouraging the North–South relationship offers the best hope for North Korea and the world
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Siobhan Jackson, Allan James Thomas, Zane Lovitt, Gil Maclean
- 30 April 2006
Reviews of the films Bad Santa; Team America: World Police; Finding Neverland and Napoleon Dynamite.
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