* tmc * in patientia vestra habetis animam vestram * tmc *

Dear Reader,

The ASIAN STUDIES WWW MONITOR
(including all its subsidiary (and/or sister) pages on "coombs.anu.edu.au" server) has permanently ceased its publishing operations on Friday 21st January 2011.

All of the online resources reported here have been thoroughly checked at the time of their listing. However, it is possible that, with the with the passage of time, many of the originally reported materials might have been removed from the Internet, or changed their online address, or varied the scope and quality of their contents.

Fortunately, in several cases it is possible to access many of the older versions of the resources listed in the MONITOR. This can be easily done via the free services of the "The Internet Archive" http://web.archive.org/, a remarkable brainchild of Brewster Kahle, San Francisco, CA.

- with warm regards -

Editor, Dr T. Matthew Ciolek.

Canberra, 21 January 2011.


15 November 2010

One Free Korea [Blog]

http://freekorea.us/
4star
15 Nov 2010

www.kpajournal.com, USA.

Self-description:
"Why blog about North Korea? North Korea's nuclear program and the diplomacy that has attempted to end it for decades are widely covered in the media, but the media has done a poor job reporting the wider North Korea story: its people and their suffering, the society in which they live, and what these things say about the failure of the international community to respond to a grave humanitarian crisis. Those missing pieces of the story are the pieces that put the nuclear issue and every other part of the North Korean tragedy in context."

Site contents:
* FAQ;
* About [the Blog's editors];
* News [Korea/Asia News Headlines];
* Blogs (Best of the Korea Blogs, incl.: "DPRK Studies", "ROK Drop", "The Marmot's Hole", "Are You NK?");
* Plan B ["Plan B: How to Disarm Kim Jong Il Without Bombing Him"];
* The Camps ["North Koreas' Largest Concentration Camps on Google Earth - The Committee for Human Rights in North Korea estimates that North Korea holds approximately 200,000 people in its system of concentration and detention camps";
* Interviews (incl. interviews with: # Dr. Nicholas Eberstadt, Henry Wendt Scholar on Political Economy, American Enterprise Institute; # Prof. Jae Ku, then-North Korea Program Director, Freedom House; # Mr. Chuck Downs, private consultant, former senior Pentagon official, and former Chair of the North Korea Working Group; # Han Ki Hong, President, The Daily NK, An online news site focusing on North Korea; # L. Gordon Flake, Executive Director, Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation; # Dr. Norbert Vollertsen, human rights activist; # Dr. Marcus Noland and Dr. Stephan Haggard, co-authors, "Famine in North Korea: Markets, Aid, and Reform"; # Prof. Andrei Lankov, author of "North of the DMZ.");
* Google Earth (North Korea's Secrets, Revealed by Google Earth: # The Camps, # New Discovery: Camp 12, # Camp 16: Mass Escape, # Camp 22: Holocaust Now, # The North Korean Air Force, # Pyongyang Airport, # Wonsan, # Ghost Cities, # Kim Jong Il's Largest Palace, # North Korea's Nuclear Sites, # Camps 14 & 18, # More of Kim Jong Il's Palaces). * Search;
* Recent Comments;
* Advocacy Sites;
* Clandestine Reporting from North Korea;
* Favorite Columnists;
* Iraq Blogs;
* Korea Blogs;
* Non-Korea Blogs;
* U.N. Documents;
* U.S. Statutes, Regulations, and Executive Orders;
* Categories [blog tags incl.; Human Trafficking, Russia, "United" Nations, Drugs & N Korea, Proliferation, Islam, Axis of Evil, History, The Fifth Column, Religion, Reconstruction, Money Laundering, Deprogramming, U.S. Politics, Anju Links]
* Recently Posted (incl: Is Kim Jong Eun Already the Most Hated Man in North Korea?, U.N. Shocker! China Helps North Korea Cheat on Sanctions, China the Predator, Obama: Bush Wimped Out on Kim Jong Il, Get Your Goose Step P??n Here, The Reaper Comes for Cho Myong Rok, Rimjingang Takes Covert Journalism to the Next Level, NKDB Seminar in DC Nov. 11, NKnet DC Conference Wrap-up, Congressional Research Service: China Ignoring U.N. Sanctions, Open News on North Korea's Drug Problem, Plan B Watch);
* Blog Monthly Archives (since Jan 2000);
* Korean Newsfeeds.

[The editor of the "One Free Korea" blog, Joshua Stanton is an attorney practicing in Washington, DC. and a former U.S. Army Judge Advocate in Korea, 1998-2002. - ed.]

URL http://freekorea.us/

Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [access to http://freekorea.us/ has been blocked by the site owner via robots.txt]

Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au)

* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Study / Documents / News / Online Guide
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]:
Other
* Scholarly usefulness of the online resource [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
V. Useful

Please note that the above details were correct on the day of their publication. To suggest an update, please email the site's editor at tmciolek@ciolek.com