Dying Breath The inside story of Pol Pot’s last days and the disintegration of the movement he created The Far Eastern Economic Review April 30, 1998 By Nate Thayer in Preah Vihear province As Pol Pot’s body lies bloating 100 metres away in a spartan shack, exhausted Khmer Rouge leaders gather in a […]
The Spy Sub, A Poisoned Diplomat in Russia, and a Naked, Drunk American Preacher in Pyongyang
The North Korean Spy Sub, a Poisoned Diplomat in Vladivostok, and the Naked, Drunk American Preacher in Pyongyang The 1996 secret mission that caused tremors from Washington to Seoul to Vladivostok By Nate Thayer#north Kore On a lonely stretch of coastal highway on September 18, 1996, South Korean cab driver Lee Jin Gyu noticed a […]
North Korea Launches Missive Against Foreign media 'Rat-Like Imbeciles'
North Korea Launches Missive Against Foreign Media ‘Rat-Like Imbeciles’ September 19, 2012 By Nate Thayer North Korea has gone ballistic again and launched a long-range missive targeting the foreign media as “mental patients and rat-like imbeciles”, who they said were acting as the “first-line shock brigade” for foreign governments to “bring about a ‘regime change’” […]
Washington tells bar owner to rename cocktail or face justice
Washington demands local bar owner rename cocktail or he will face justice while religious violence provocateurs remain free to spark World War Three Addendum update to this story: The plot thickens. It now appears the infamous “Jewish Israeli-American California real estate developer” who produced the movie that sparked this week’s mid east riots, does not […]
Pot Pot Tells China in 1977 that Killings Underway, to Continue
Pol Pot details Khmer Rouge killing enemies in the party to Chinese premier Hua Guofeng in 1977, warns him war with Vietnam is neccessary and looming Beijing, 29 September 1977 By Nate Thayer The day before Pol Pot arrived for a state visit in Beijing in September 1977, he made a speech in Phnom Penh […]
Pol Pot Meets Kim Il Sung
Pol Pot Meets Kim Il Sung In October 1977, Pol Pot and his delegation of brother-in-law Ieng Sary, and sister-in-law Ieng Tirith, arrived in Pyongyang where they were given the highest level of enthusiastic welcome, meriting no less than 26 separate stories in official North Korean media, non stop radio and TV coverage, innumerable photographs […]
40 years after Pol Pot, What has Happened to the Khmer Rouge? They are Back in Power
Excerpts from “Sympathy for the Devil: A Journalist’s Memoir from Inside Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge” (Select excerpts from the unpublished manuscript “Sympathy for the Devil: A Journalist’s Memoir from Inside Pol Pot’s Cambodia” By Nate Thayer. Copyright Nate Thayer. All Rights reserved. No publication in whole or part permitted without express written permission from the […]
'We are the World!’ Excerpts from “Sympathy for the Devil: A Journalist’s Memoir from Inside Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge”
‘We are the World!’ Excerpts from my unpublished book “Sympathy for the Devil: A Journalist’s Memoir from Inside Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge.” By Nate Thayer After threatening to assassinate American civilians, the Khmer Rouge leader continued “Why don’t we join hands in national reconciliation? Join together! We are with you, the West!” he said, growing […]
The Night Pol Pot Died
Excerpts from Sympathy for the Devil: A Journalist’s Memoir from Inside Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge (Copyright Nate Thayer. All rights reserved. No publication or transmission in whole or part allowed without express written permission of the author. ) By Nate Thayer I was alone in a hotel the night Pol Pot died, in the small, remote […]
Excerpts from “Sympathy for the Devil: A Journalists Memoir from Inside Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge”
After more than two decades of research and reporting, we have begun a crowd sourcing fund raising campaign to bring, with your support, us through the final stretch to publish my book Sympathy for the Devil: A Journalist’s Memoir from Inside Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge. It can not be done without the generous contributions of […]
North Korea: The World's Only Mafia Crime State
North Korea: The World’s Only Mafia Crime State How North Korea Funds their Army, Nuclear Weapons Programme. and Small Group of Elite Cadre in Control (Excerpts from an unpublished study of the criminal syndicates run by Kim Jong Il as central State policy) (Copyright Nate Thayer. No republication in full or in part without express […]
North Korea: A Criminal Syndicate Posing as a Government
North Korea: A Criminal Syndicate Posing as a Government By Nate Thayer (Copyright Nate Thayer. No republication in part or in whole without prior written permission of the author) After a decade of failed Clinton era diplomacy, the United Nations and both the Bush and Obama administrations shifted to a more confrontational policy regarding the […]
