Kim Jong Il Inspects KPA Reconnoitering Company (Korean Central News Agency) Pyongyang, August 6 (KCNA) -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il inspected the Reconnoitering Company of KPA Unit 891. [News Source]

Mysterious, fatal disease bound for elk feedgrounds. A cousin of mad cow, chronic wasting disease is a worry for Jackson Hole’s wildlife economy. [News Source]

Koreans cheer and jeer as Bush arrives / Youths battle cops in Seoul as elders wave U.S. flags (San Francisco Chronicle) President Bush's trip to South Korea sharpened a political divide here on Tuesday: Middle-aged Christians and aging veterans in military uniforms prayed and waved American flags, while young South Koreans battled riot police in downtown Seoul, shouting "Bush... [News Source]

U.S. in ‘Firm Opposition’ to Chinese Human Rights Policies, Bush Says (Washington Post) BANGKOK, Aug. 7 -- President Bush on Thursday used some of his bluntest language to date on human rights in China, saying in a speech here before he flew to Beijing for the Olympic Games' opening ceremony that "America stands in firm opposition" to China's detention of political dissidents and re... [News Source]

SKorea’s Lee appoints new ministers, bypassing parliament (AFP via Yahoo! News) South Korea's President Lee Myung-Bak on Wednesday officially appointed three new cabinet ministers, skipping the customary confirmation hearings amid a parliamentary deadlock. [News Source]

A major undertaking tackles a George Bernard Shaw classic (Orlando Sentinel) Pity the idealists who found themselves in the same room with George Bernard Shaw. [News Source]

WHITE HOUSE NOTEBOOK: Thai-made shirts await Bush (AP via Yahoo! News) U.S. Secret Service agents have knocked on the door of a hole-in-the-wall shop run by two turbaned Sikhs to take delivery of a special package for President Bush — five Egyptian cotton shirts in blue and white. [News Source]

Bush chides China, NKorea on rights records (AFP via Yahoo! News) US President George W. Bush chided China and North Korea Wednesday on their human rights records but defended his decision to attend this week's Beijing Olympics opening ceremony. [News Source]

Bush, Lee Urge North Korea to Honor Nuclear Pledge (Bloomberg via Yahoo! News) Aug. 6 (Bloomberg) -- President George W. Bush and his South Korean counterpart urged North Korea to keep its denuclearization pledge five days ahead of a U.S. deadline to remove the communist regime from a list of nations that support terrorism. [News Source]

Where’s the Beef? S Korea’s ‘Nightly Dance’ (ABC News) Police Scuffle With Protestors Over Resumption of U.S. Beef Imports [News Source]