http://vtncankor.wordpress.com ..searching for rational North Korea policies. Wed, 15 May 2013 16:48:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://1.gravatar.com/blavatar/37855aa6446430cf20923a0131063b4c?s=96&d=http%3A%2F%2Fs2.wp.com%2Fi%2Fbuttonw-com.png http://vtncankor.wordpress.com http://vtncankor.wordpress.com/2013/05/15/members-of-un-mandated-probe-into-human-rights-abuses-in-dpr-korea-announced/ http://vtncankor.wordpress.com/2013/05/15/members-of-un-mandated-probe-into-human-rights-abuses-in-dpr-korea-announced/#comments Wed, 15 May 2013 14:19:20 +0000 Erich Weingartner http://vtncankor.wordpress.com/?p=6722 ]]> http://vtncankor.wordpress.com/2013/05/15/members-of-un-mandated-probe-into-human-rights-abuses-in-dpr-korea-announced/feed/ 1 erichweingartner President of the Human Rights Council Remigiusz A. Henczel (right) and High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay. (Photo by Violaine Martin) http://vtncankor.wordpress.com/2013/05/05/has-starvation-become-a-foreign-diplomacy-tool/ http://vtncankor.wordpress.com/2013/05/05/has-starvation-become-a-foreign-diplomacy-tool/#comments Sun, 05 May 2013 12:00:01 +0000 Erich Weingartner http://vtncankor.wordpress.com/?p=6694 ]]> http://vtncankor.wordpress.com/2013/05/05/has-starvation-become-a-foreign-diplomacy-tool/feed/ 0 erichweingartner A North Korean mother lies with her acutely malnourished son, plagued by sores, at a county hospital in September 2011. (Photo by Jim White, Mercy Corps) http://vtncankor.wordpress.com/2013/05/03/dprk-business-monthly-volume-iv-no-3/ http://vtncankor.wordpress.com/2013/05/03/dprk-business-monthly-volume-iv-no-3/#comments Fri, 03 May 2013 16:14:48 +0000 Erich Weingartner http://vtncankor.wordpress.com/?p=6686 ]]> http://vtncankor.wordpress.com/2013/05/03/dprk-business-monthly-volume-iv-no-3/feed/ 0 erichweingartner Josh Thomas and Ms Yu, one of the North Korean guides, enjoy draft beers at the bar of the Yanggakdo Hotel Microbrewery. (Photo by Joseph A Ferris III) More... More... http://vtncankor.wordpress.com/2013/04/24/remembering-the-rac-by-justin-rohrlich/ http://vtncankor.wordpress.com/2013/04/24/remembering-the-rac-by-justin-rohrlich/#comments Wed, 24 Apr 2013 12:00:59 +0000 Erich Weingartner http://vtncankor.wordpress.com/?p=6649 ]]> http://vtncankor.wordpress.com/2013/04/24/remembering-the-rac-by-justin-rohrlich/feed/ 1 erichweingartner “This was the T-shirt we produced back then,” Weingartner says. “Don’t know if it was ever repeated. As you can see, no reference to ‘Random Access Club,’ haha. On the back of the shirt were the names of the agencies, both UN and NGO who were resident in North Korea at that time. 20 in all.” DPRK driver's licence, front and back. Erich Weingartner’s RAC membership card. The back of the card reads: “A member may invite max 2 guests at any one time. Members are responsible for their guests.” http://vtncankor.wordpress.com/2013/04/22/canadians-not-about-to-leave-or-stay-away-from-south-korea/ http://vtncankor.wordpress.com/2013/04/22/canadians-not-about-to-leave-or-stay-away-from-south-korea/#comments Mon, 22 Apr 2013 12:00:19 +0000 Erich Weingartner http://vtncankor.wordpress.com/?p=6639 ]]> http://vtncankor.wordpress.com/2013/04/22/canadians-not-about-to-leave-or-stay-away-from-south-korea/feed/ 0 erichweingartner Minister of National Defence Peter MacKay looks on as Minister of Veterans Affairs Steven Blaney speaks with Korean War veteran Douglas Barber during an event on Parliament Hill, Tuesday, 16 April 2013. (Photo by Adrian Wyld, The Canadian Press) http://vtncankor.wordpress.com/2013/04/20/nightlife-in-pyongyang-by-justin-rohrlich/ http://vtncankor.wordpress.com/2013/04/20/nightlife-in-pyongyang-by-justin-rohrlich/#comments Sat, 20 Apr 2013 12:00:58 +0000 Erich Weingartner http://vtncankor.wordpress.com/?p=6635 ]]> http://vtncankor.wordpress.com/2013/04/20/nightlife-in-pyongyang-by-justin-rohrlich/feed/ 0 erichweingartner Pyongyang-Nightlife http://vtncankor.wordpress.com/2013/04/12/dprk-business-monthly-volume-iv-no-2/ http://vtncankor.wordpress.com/2013/04/12/dprk-business-monthly-volume-iv-no-2/#comments Fri, 12 Apr 2013 20:55:33 +0000 Erich Weingartner http://vtncankor.wordpress.com/?p=6531 ]]> http://vtncankor.wordpress.com/2013/04/12/dprk-business-monthly-volume-iv-no-2/feed/ 0 erichweingartner Rural DPRK community with Red Cross kits (Photo by IFRC) More... More... http://vtncankor.wordpress.com/2013/03/27/will-seoul-engage-north-korea-soon-by-chung-min-uck/ http://vtncankor.wordpress.com/2013/03/27/will-seoul-engage-north-korea-soon-by-chung-min-uck/#comments Wed, 27 Mar 2013 12:00:15 +0000 Erich Weingartner http://vtncankor.wordpress.com/?p=6436 ]]> http://vtncankor.wordpress.com/2013/03/27/will-seoul-engage-north-korea-soon-by-chung-min-uck/feed/ 0 erichweingartner Trucks loaded with flour as relief aid to North Korea pass a checkpoint on a bridge over the Imjin River in the South Korean border city of Paju, Gyeonggi Province, in this Sept. 21, 2012, file photo. The Seoul government sent 500 tons of flour to the impoverished North in one of the lastest aid supplies under the previous Lee Myung-bak administration. (Photo by Korea Times) Bernhard Seliger (Photo by Hanns Seidel Foundation) http://vtncankor.wordpress.com/2013/03/26/victor-hsu-separate-humanitarian-issue-from-politics/ http://vtncankor.wordpress.com/2013/03/26/victor-hsu-separate-humanitarian-issue-from-politics/#comments Tue, 26 Mar 2013 12:00:31 +0000 Erich Weingartner http://vtncankor.wordpress.com/?p=6430 ]]> http://vtncankor.wordpress.com/2013/03/26/victor-hsu-separate-humanitarian-issue-from-politics/feed/ 0 erichweingartner Victor Hsu of Korea Development Institute (Photo by The Korea Times) http://vtncankor.wordpress.com/2013/03/25/north-korea-faces-heightened-human-rights-scrutiny-by-roberta-cohen/ http://vtncankor.wordpress.com/2013/03/25/north-korea-faces-heightened-human-rights-scrutiny-by-roberta-cohen/#comments Mon, 25 Mar 2013 15:47:07 +0000 Erich Weingartner http://vtncankor.wordpress.com/?p=6419 ]]> http://vtncankor.wordpress.com/2013/03/25/north-korea-faces-heightened-human-rights-scrutiny-by-roberta-cohen/feed/ 0 erichweingartner Roberta Cohen