We seriously need to bring back independent media covering on-the-ground events that affect real people in real time. Corporate media is sorely failing us all.

It's been over 24 hours and not a single Korea-based English news outlet is covering this water crisis.

The Korean diaspora is one of the largest in the world. Our region has a huge number of immigrants. If you have loved ones affected by the #ChungcheongnamWaterFiasco you'll never know because no one is covering it in English. Those media companies think you should care about presidential scandals, corporate financial gains, celebrity gossip and K-pop news more.

#media
#korea

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un ordered the launch of a new intercontinental ballistic missile, its first missile test in nearly a year. The United States, South Korea and Japan condemned the launch as raising tensions just days before the U.S. presidential election. The test comes as North Korean troops are joining the front lines of Russia’s war on Ukraine. Read more from @CBSNews

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#Korea #NorthKorea #SouthKorea #Japan #Missile

#JejuIsland has a tradition of eight snake gods, who are a mother and seven sisters from the seven stars (Chilseong) of the Big Dipper in the North, in charge of riches and prosperity. These are their domains:

Daughter 1: Harvest grandmother (= goddess)
Daughter 2: Administration and criminal law enforcement
Daughter 3: Keeper of prisons
Daughter 4: Orchard grandmother
Daughter 5: Keeper of storehouses
Daughter 6: Government office grandmother
Daughter 7: Outer chilseong of the fields
Mother: Inner chilseong of the house

#mythology #folklore #MythologyMonday #Korea

(See thread for how they came to be gods, and mind the content warnings!)

The long-suppressed official report on US biowarfare in North Korea

Written largely by the most prestigious British scientist of his day, this official report, containing hundreds of pages of evidence about the use of US biological weapons during the Korean War, was effectively suppressed upon its original release in 1952.
Courtesy of researcher Jeffrey Kaye, INSURGE now publishes the report in text-searchable format for the first time for the general public, with an exclusive, in-depth analysis of its damning findings and implications.
The report provides compelling evidence of systematic violation of the laws of war against North Korea through the deployment of biological weapons — a critical context that is essential for anyone to understand the dynamics of current regional tensions, and what might be done about them.

https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/the-long-suppressed-korean-war-report-on-u-s-use-of-biological-weapons-released-at-last-20d83f5cee54
#USA #US #CIA #american #war-crimes #bioweapons #chemical-weapon #Korea #war #history

V #BBC Jean Mackenzie:
The South Korean military says it has been monitoring signs that North #Korea supplied #Hamas with weapons used in its attack on #Israel , a military official said in a background briefing to domestic reporters.

The official also suggested that the Hamas tactic of incursion by motorised paragliders could have originated in North Korea, pointing to the regime’s reinforced air infiltration training using paragliders.

#ukrainisation #USA #us #britain #france #germany #spain #europe #eu #mexico #brasil #korea #capitalism is #poverty #statistics