I may not be a nurse, but this sure seems inappropriate to pressure someone to have an enema:
A senior nurse shows how to insert needles into blood vessels, with a new nurse as the subject, during a training session at Daejeon St. Mary’s Hospital in this February photo. It was disclosed recently that at some nursing schools students are forced to receive an enema in front of classmates as a guinea pig, raising issues of human rights infringement. / Yonhap
A human rights violation controversy has emerged after it was found that some nursing schools here force students to act as guinea pigs by receiving an enema in front of classmates.
Act Now Nurse, a group advocating nurses’ human rights, said it plans to file a complaint with the National Human Rights Commission of Korea against seven schools for human rights infringement.
The practice became known after a student accused one school of randomly picking one student each from four- to five-member groups to become the “patient of the day” for the enema training.
“One student in each group is picked by drawing lots, and it is the atmosphere that the selected student cannot say no. Having to show my anus to others because of bad luck in the lots… I think this is an issue of human rights, and I wonder if other schools do this too,” the student said anonymously in an online community of nurses, Sept. 18. [Korea Times]
I am sure the irony is not lost on the Kim regime that they are bashing the Japanese Navy for an arms build up when it simply tested an SM-3 missile used for missile defense of their country. An SM-3 missile is not used for offensive operations against North Korea:
North Korea on Saturday blasted Japan for trying to create tension on the Korean Peninsula, while also accusing the country of trying to rebuild its military.
“The maritime ‘Self-Defense Force’ (MSDF) of Japan recently conducted a test-fire of the interceptor missile SM-3 Block 1B on an Aegis destroyer in waters off Hawaii of the U.S. It is reportedly the first time that the MSDF conducted an interceptor missile test-fire,” the Rodong Sinmun, a newspaper published by the North’s Workers’ Party, reported.
In a commentary carried by the North’s Korean Central News Agency, the newspaper insisted Japan was trying to build a military capable of waging war against others.
“The present reactionary regime of Japan seeks to put the Asia-Pacific region under control by turning Japan into a country capable of going to war,” it said. [Yonhap]
Trump just said in his W Virginia speech that he “loves” Kim Jong Un, & his audience clapped. Seriously. WTH has happened to the GOP? It’s just unrecognizable. This is why I’m so resistant to T’s diplomacy w/ NK. He’s doing it for all the wrong reasons – flattery, admiration, /1
President Moon Jae-in (R), alongside his wife Kim Jung-sook, visits his ancestors’ tombs at a Catholic graveyard in the southeastern city of Yangsan on Sept. 28, 2018, as he took the day off after returning from a trip to New York the previous day, in this photo released by the presidential office Cheong Wa Dae. In New York, he held talks with U.S. President Donald Trump and attended the U.N. General Assembly. (Yonhap)
How about the Kim regime takes steps towards real denuclearization instead of “pretend denuclearization” first:
North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong-ho (L) walks inside the United Nations headquarters in New York on Sept. 26, 2018. (Yonhap)
North Korea’s foreign minister said Saturday that his country won’t dismantle its nuclear weapons program first without seeing corresponding measures from the United States.
Speaking to the United Nations General Assembly in New York, Ri Yong-ho said his country’s commitment to denuclearization is firm but that it needs to see trust-building measures from the U.S.
“Without any trust in the U.S., there will be no confidence in our national security, and under such circumstances, there is no way we will unilaterally disarm ourselves first,” the minister said.
The North has taken “goodwill measures” by stopping its ballistic missile tests and dismantling a nuclear test site, among other things, Ri said. The U.S., on the other hand, has increased sanctions on the North and rejected Pyongyang’s calls for a declaration to formally end the 1950-53 Korean War, he claimed. [Yonhap]
You can read more at the link, but the North Koreans are continuing their line of attack of getting sanctions dropped for little to nothing in return. They have yet to commit themselves to any real denuclearization. They have stopped testing which can restart at anytime they have shuttered facilities that either no longer needed or easily rebuilt. When nuclear material is flown out of the country and international inspectors are supervising the decommissioning of the Yongbyon nuclear plant then we know they are serious about denuclearization.
Courtesy of the Japanese Navy, the Moon administration has a nice distraction to rally all Koreans around:
The Navy said Sunday it remains in opposition to a Japanese warship carrying a controversial imperialistic flag to an international naval event in South Korea next month.
The southern island of Jeju will stage the International Fleet Review from Oct. 10-14, and the Navy said warships from 15 nations, including Japan, the United States and China, will participate in the first such event in South Korea since 2008.
The Japanese vessel is expected to display the Rising Sun Flag, viewed as an emblem of the country’s wartime aggression in South Korea, where historical animosity over the wrongdoings of the country’s former colonizer still runs deep. Japan colonized the peninsula from 1910-45.
South Korea earlier informed participating nations that they should raise their national flag and the flag of the host country. One South Korean Navy official said the stance hasn’t changed.
“We’ll continue to speak with Japan regarding this matter,” the official said. “Our Navy has a separate communication channel with the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, and we’ll continue to let them know where we stand.”
Another South Korean military source said he expected Japan to carry the flag into Jeju waters and then take it down during the actual review. [Yonhap]
B.R. Myers does relatively few radio interviews, so it was a pleasure to speak with him at length this week while I hosted a KBS radio program. #korea#dprkhttps://t.co/1B4JTqL1Us
It looks like the Moon administration continues to work around the sanctions on the North Koreans:
South Korea will seek to launch joint on-site inspections of cross-border railways with North Korea next month as part of efforts to reconnect the railways, as called for in last week’s inter-Korean summit agreement, the presidential spokesman said Friday.
The decision was made at a meeting of the committee formed to discuss measures to carry out the Pyongyang Declaration reached in the third summit between President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Pyongyang last week.
The agreement calls for breaking ground before the end of the year toward reconnecting two sets of cross-border roads and railways. One of them, called the Seohae Line, runs through the western section of the border and the other, called the Donghae Line, runs through the eastern section. [Yonhap]
You can read more at the link, but I wonder if the United Nations Command has blessed off on this yet? Despite all the concessions the Moon administration has made to the Kim regime, I have yet to read or see any report that the North Koreans have removed one piece of artillery or troop formation away from the DMZ.
