Chinese intelligence will be looking out for troublemakers like terrorist groups and especially human rights groups

China’s intelligence services are gearing up for next year’s Beijing Olympics, gathering information on foreigners who might mount protests and spoil the nation’s moment in the spotlight.Government spy agencies are compiling lists of potentially troublesome foreign organizations, looking beyond the human rights groups long critical of Beijing, experts said.

They include evangelical Christians eager to end China’s religious restrictions, activists wanting Beijing to use its oil-buying leverage with Sudan to end the strife in Darfur and environmental campaigners angry about global warming.

“Demonstrations of all kinds are a concern, including anti-American demonstrations,” said the consultant, who works for Beijing’s Olympic organizers and asked not to be identified.

Concerns about foreign protesters are a reminder of how the Beijing games differ from most previous Olympics. Aside from the hefty $40 billion price tag and the government’s outsized political ambitions, security poses a different challenge, complicated by Chinese leaders’ repressive policies at home and growing profile abroad.

Like all Olympic hosts post-Sept. 11, China’s security services are concerned about terrorism. Attacks by militant Islamic groups, some of them homegrown, top the list of scenarios the police and the military are preparing for, experts said.

Throwing eggs at politicians, not good (Via. Lost Nomad)

SEOUL, July 19 (Yonhap) — An ultra-rightist lawmaker was hit with eggs Thursday as he visited Korean war veterans to explain a softened North Korea initiative of the Grand National Party (GNP).

Shouting “Back off from the North Korea initiative,” about 20 members of the Korean Veterans Association (KVA) threw several eggs at GNP Rep. Chung Hyung-keun as he walked into the lobby of the KVA headquarters in Seoul, hitting his forehead and his suit.

Chung was there to give a briefing on “Peace Vision for the Korean Peninsula,” a package of new North Korea policies that the GNP recently adopted ahead of December’s presidential election. The new policies reflect a shift from the GNP’s hard-line policy on the communist North to a flexible, reconciliatory one.

The policy change has drawn a strong backlash from its conservative supporters, including the war veterans who called it “a copy of the sunshine policy that gave birth to North Korean nuclear weapons.”
Taken aback by the attack, Chung was hurriedly escorted by the building’s security guards to a hall where he gave a speech.

Just to show you that although democracy has lost many wars, it has nonetheless won the war

Chosun (North Korea) Central TV, with the Local People’s Assembly representative elections ahead on the 29th of the month, reported on the 14th that a poster with the election slogan, “Let everyone vote in agreement,” has been produced.

North Korean Local People’s Assembly elections is a process of electing People’s Assembly representative at the province and the city under the direct control of the central government, and general cities, gun (county levels) and districts. At the election held in August 2003, 26,650 delegates were elected to the local people’s assembly representative.

Even a country like North Korea has to pretend that it is a democracy.