Keyword: North Korea

International Women's Group Announces Historic March Across Korean Demilitarized Zone

Picture: Wikipedia Andrea Germanos - A group of global women aims to wage peace with a milestone walk across the 2-mile wide Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) that separates North and South Korea, and a call for an end to the state of war that has affected millions for over six decades. The organizers announced the International Peacemakers’ Walk for Peace in Korea on Wednesday during the United Nation's 59th Commission on the Status of Women. Honorary co-chairs of the peace walk are Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Corrigan...

Kim the Third - A Shakespearean Epic

Picture: Bowing to the statues of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il on Mansu Hill in Pyongyang, North Korea courtesy J.A. de Roo courtesy Wikipedia. John Feffer - Several years before William Shakespeare wrote his first play, England was rocked by a bloody political scandal. Queen Elizabeth, the virgin monarch who had been on the throne for nearly three decades, was in a battle of wills with her cousin, Mary Queen of Scots. England’s religious future was at stake. Would it stay Protestant, as Elizabeth had decreed, or would it revert to Catholicism, as Mary preferred? Mary had fled Scotland for the presumed safety of England and her...