MORE IN U.S. CALLING FOR REGIME CHANGE (N.Korea) (GOP stirring the pot!!)

I've broken this out from the latest World Media Watch....GOP Senators, religious groupies, etc. all in there to promote war!! Diversion from Iraq????????



2//The Chosun Ilbo Updated July.11, 2003 17:44 KST

http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200307/200307110011.html



MORE IN U.S. CALLING FOR REGIME CHANGE

by Joo Yong-jung



WASHINGTON - The emphasis of Washington's North Korean policy appears to be shifting gradually toward regime change, as more officials conclude that anything short of that will fail to conclusively solve the nuclear crisis. At the same time, American policymakers are striving to ensure that the North's nuclear ambitions and human rights abuses are high-profile issues.



The Republican policy committee in the U.S. Senate recently brought a Japan-based opponent of the Kim Jong Il regime to the United States for a week and introduced him to several high-ranking officials. Park Gap-dong is the joint chairman of a civic group called the Chosun Democratic Unification and Nation Saving Front; in the years before the Korean War he operated underground in the South as the chief of Namgodang, or the South Workers Party. He settled in the North during the war but was soon purged from the party by Kim Il Sung and defected to Japan, where he organized the Chosun front. In the decades since he has been working to topple the Pyongyang government.



During his stay in Washington, Park met several congressmen and policymakers in the George W. Bush administration. Park also attended a seminar held by the American Foreign Policy Council on Wednesday, where he said, "We have to prepare for the collapse of the North Korean regime; if the United States takes military action the Kim regime will collapse in three days."



Another Washington nonprofit organization, the National Endowment for Democracy, will recognize other opponents of the Kim Il Jong government when it gives out its annual Democracy Awards next week. Yun Hyun, director of the Seoul-based North Korean Human Rights Citizens Alliance, will be honored, as will defectors such as Kang Chol-hwan, Ahn Hyeok and Lee Sun-ok. A seminar held in conjunction with the awards ceremony will feature presentations with titles such as "concentration camps," "famine" and "refugees: desperate human rights crisis in North Korea."



Senators such as John Kyl and Sam Brownback, both Republicans, will deliver speeches at the seminar.


MORE, including what the religious groups are doing to stir the pot!!

Anyone who has examined the neocon policy toward N.Korea realizes that its objective has been regime change since before dim wit took office.

As for concern about famine and human rights, the American cut off of fuel promised under the agreed framework and food aid reductions no doubt have cost the lives of many including children.

No offense, I don't trust any Koreans who voluntarily take up residence in Japan. Usually they are being manipulated by one government or another. The Republic of Korea (S.Korea) is the lawful government of Korea and pronouncements from easily manipulated defectors are about as reliable as pronouncements from N.Korean agents living in Japan. Their views on what policies are or should be are invariably innacurate and are not authoritative.