Wednesday?s Link Attack: Japan?s Dokdo Event; Filmmaker Killed By Drunk Driver; Dodgers Pitcher Hyun-jin Ryu
South Korea Brushes Off North?s ?Final Destruction? Threat
Voice of America
South Korea?s top national security official, in an exclusive VOA interview, says there is no cause for alarm amid a fresh North Korean threat to destroy the South.
National Security Adviser, Chun Yung-woo, says he is disappointed but not alarmed by a North Korean diplomat?s bombastic threat.
Chun told VOA?s Korean Service Wednesday that Pyongyang routinely resorts to ?violent vocabulary and expressions? to issue threats of war and retaliation. So such rhetoric unleashed at an international conference is not surprising.
Survivors liken N.Korean prison camps to Holocaust horrors
AFP via Google News
North Korea?s prison camps are a closed-off world of death, torture and forced labour where babies are born slaves, according to two survivors who liken the horrors of the camps to a Holocaust in progress.
?People think the Holocaust is in the past, but it is still very much a reality. It is still going on in North Korea,? Shin Dong-hyuk told AFP through an interpreter on the sidelines of a human rights summit in Geneva.
Shin himself spent his first 23 years in a prison camp in the secretive country, where he says he was tortured and subjected to forced labour before making a spectacular escape seven years ago ? and giving the outside world a rare first-hand account of life inside the camps.
South Korea faces quandary over potential human rights probe of North
Washington Post
The United Nations? human rights chief declared recently that it was time for a ?long overdue? investigation into what she called unparalleled rights abuses in North Korea. The probe, unprecedented in scope, could help establish whether the North?s leaders are committing crimes against humanity.
Navi Pillay?s January proposal has already drawn support from the United States. But the decision has proved sensitive in still-undecided South Korea, where leaders remain divided over whether to confront the North or try to somehow reduce tensions with it, even after Pyongyang last weekdetonated an underground nuclear device.
S. Korea urges Japan to drop event claiming Dokdo islets
Yonhap News
South Korea urged Japan on Tuesday to cancel an event it plans to hold to promote Tokyo?s territorial claims to the Dokdo islets.
?The event is one that should not be held in the first place. I saw reports that a Japanese government figure will attend it. If that?s true, it is very regrettable,? Seoul?s foreign ministry spokesman Cho Tai-young told reporters during a regular briefing.
According to Japanese media reports, Tokyo is considering sending Aiko Shimajiri, a vice-ministerial official and a member of the upper house of parliament, as well as 18 other lawmakers to attend the event set to be hosted by Shimane prefecture.
South Korean Director Park Chul-soo Dies in Car Accident
Hollywood Reporter
Director Park Chul-soo, the South Korean auteur known for sexually explicit films like last year?s B.E.D., died following a car accident Tuesday. He was 64.
The filmmaker was crossing a street in the city of Yongin early Tuesday morning when he was hit by a man driving under the influence, according to police.
Park?s death follows road accidents that killed two international filmmakers last year. Legendary Japanese director Koji Wakamatsu was struck by a car in October, and Greece?s Theo Angelopoulos was killed by a motorcycle nine months earlier.
WBW: Korean-American Style
allkpop
It?s not a coincidence that more and more Korean-American singers are making their way onto these shows as K-pop has been recruiting internationally for years with America being a prime target. Even in the early years, there has always been a steady stream of talent from the States to Seoul. Today?s Way Back Wednesday will feature some of the most influential artists from back in the day who lived in America before making it big. Some were born in America, others only lived here for a few years, but they all helped make K-pop what it is today.
Newcomer Hyun-Jin Ryu seems all right to Dodgers
Los Angeles Times
While working with Hyun-Jin Ryu in the first week of spring training, pitching coach Rick Honeycutt was reminded of another top-heavy left-hander who used to pitch for the Dodgers: Fernando Valenzuela.
?He has a presence about him,? Honeycutt said of Ryu.
Honeycutt hasn?t seen enough of Ryu to draw any conclusions about how he?ll transition from the Korean league to the majors, but he?s certain of this: The 25-year-old?s oversized torso is bursting with self-belief.
Others see it too.
?He does seem confident,? Manager Don Mattingly said.
Eagles sign OT Ed Wang to two-year deal
Star-Ledger (N.J.)
The Eagles have signed offensive tackle Ed Wang to a two-year deal, the team announced on Friday.
Wang, 6?5?, 315 lbs, was the first Chinese player ever drafted in the NFL when the Buffalo Bills took him in the 5th round of the 2010 draft. Wang never started for the Bills but did play in six games.
?I?m excited to play here and be here with the tradition they have,? Wang said.
Korean Lunar New Year [SLIDESHOW]
San Francisco Chronicle
Simone Willets tosses an arrow while playing a game of tuho, with help from her classmate Adrien Stroumza (right), during a celebration of Seol Nal, the Korean Lunar New Year, at the Claire Lilienthal School in San Francisco, Calif. on Friday, Feb. 8, 2013. Students in the Korean-immersion program wore traditional hanbok outfits and participated in a variety of activities to celebrate the lunar new year, which begins Sunday.
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