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The meeting room of North and South Korea DMZ, 2003 The famous negotiation table Promoting militarism or peace?   

Peeping into North Korea, DMZ, 2003 The beautiful mountains of North Korea North Korean peace propaganda, to be seen by South Korean visitors to the DMZ Probably the highest flagpole in the world, compare with the buildings

Musical Fountain Lady, Seoul 2003

Seoul Arts Center, Musical Fountain, 2003

Independence Park, Seoul

Insa Jong Quarter Art exhibition on street wall © 2003 Jan Oberg

Seoul Meditations, 2003

Seoul people, 2003

Downtown Seoul Nam Dae-Mun Market Why don’t you see the tall building through that gate? © 2003 Jan Oberg Good Bank’s homage to Mondrian? Cell phone conversation in front of poster in a subway station Nam Dae-Mun Market

Seoul subway

Musical Fountain Water Drops, Seoul 2003

Peacemaking in Kosovo Coming to an End – for Predictable Reasons See PressInfo 195 as a background to this PressInfo This PressInfo in Swedish This PressInfo in Danish There is a long-term background and some root causes behind the emerging peace-keeping failure in Kosovo. Media and politicians tend to forget them because they were ignored during the 1990s and do not fit the standardised image of the conflict. In this analysis, TFF’s director who has been engaged in Kosovo since 1991 discusses some of the most important among those causes. In passing, he also points out how an allegedly “prestigious” NGO such as the International Crisis Group serves as a biased NEGO, a NEar-Governmental Organisation, and continues to offer perspectives and proposals that will make things worse in the Balkans. It’s the beginning of the end Slowly but surely – and sadly – the efforts of the international community to...