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Hi Jeff – I don’t expect you to spend time on this but speaking of the Hague, I wanted to share this with you in solidarity with Professor Paul Robinson

• Subcommittee on International Human Rights of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development

https://parlvu.parl.gc.ca/Harmony/en/PowerBrowser/PowerBrowserV2/20220503/-1/36989?Language=English&Stream=Video

Featured here with links to the transcript (slightly rough in some parts) as well as the video

https://irrussianality.wordpress.com/2022/05/16/evidence-to-parliament/

“We have four witnesses on this panel. We have Chile Eboe-Osuji, professor at the Lincoln Alexander school of law at Ryerson University and at the University of Windsor. We also have, in person, Paul Robinson, a professor at the University of Ottawa. Appearing virtually is James K. Stewart, retired deputy prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. Finally, we have, in person, Eugene Czolij, NGO Ukraine-2050 president and honorary consul of Ukraine in Montreal.”

I can barely hold my tongue regarding my impression of the other three so-called ‘witnesses’ – suffice to say that the ICC is clearly a farce.

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This is topical ...

Here's who is REALLY winning the war in Ukraine | Redacted with Clayton Morris

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltNnTOQIGdQ

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Thanks as always Jeff. As usual I learnt much, agreed with most and questioned a few points. Here is my contribution.

Speaking of Kim Jong-suk (well we are now)

• 103rd Birthday of KIM JONG SUK - Anti-Japanese War Heroine (on Dec 24)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VDOHJ1Kjrs

Kim Jong-suk is (as you know) Kim Jong-un’s grandmother by the way –the resemblance is obvious – and the history and heritage explains the DPRK people’s devotion to and adoration of their current leader.

See more on the channel ‘푸옹 Phuong DPRK Daily’ including:

• Who Started the KOREAN WAR ? 조선전쟁의 도발자 (70th Anniv. of Beginning of the Korean War, June 25, 1950)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pu686bdmh7I

But this is what I really wanted to share (a slight disagreement with Bruce Cumings as quoted):

On 26 June 1950 General Kim Il-sung of the DPRK gave this radio speech to his fellow countrymen.

The day before the US became officially involved the “army of the puppet government of the traitor Syngman Rhee [had just] launched an all-out offensive along the 38th parallel against the northern half of Korea”.

Here is a rare link to the speech (pdf)

http://www.bannedthought.net/Korea-DPRK/KimIlSung/GoAllOutForVictoryInTheWar-1950.pdf

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