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Together we shall open a road to advancement

04-Mar-08
Here is a translation of Lee Myung-bak's inaugural address on 25 Febraury, typeset as I received it. Some of the line breaks may be accidental, but most of them seem to be intended. Fellow Koreans, seven million Korean compatriots living abroad, former Presidents Roh Moo-hyun, Kim Dae Jung, Kim Young-sam, and Chun Doo-hwan, President Islam Karimov of the Republic of Uzbekistan, President Enkhbayar Nambar of Mongolia, Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen of the Kingdom of Cambodia, Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda of Japan, Chairman Viktor Zubkov of the Government of the Russia Federation, Vice President Muhammad Jusuf Kalla of the Republic of Indonesia, Thank you for being here. I have received your call and today, I stand here before you as the 17th-term ...
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Condemned out of their own mouth

02-Sep-06
One of the reasons I publish the DPRK e-bulletins when I receive them is for their choice language. I am always puzzled why propagandists obviously take a great deal of trouble to get something into English but nevertheless imagine that the resulting hyperbolic prose will be met with anything other than not terribly polite titters. The Chosun has been following the antics of the Korean Teachers and Education Workers Union. They reported on the wholesale lifting of passages from a North Korean history text book and rebranding them without disclosing the source (also here); and also on the Busan chapter's anti-globalisation take on the APEC summit. Following the Chosun's article claiming that the union was directed by a "handful of ...
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