An Original Thought from Kim Dae Joong

Reading the Chosun‘s Washington correspondent’s columns is usually a lot like knitting a sweater out of concertina wire, but this time, he has enough to say on Roh’s appeasement offensive and the direction of U.S. policy to merit reading:

The first point that needs to be clarified is that the collapse of North Korea and a regime change are by no means one and the same thing. Collapse signifies ruination on a national, economic and administrative scale, while regime change merely denotes a shift in power away from Dear Leader Kim Jong-il and his self-imposed cult of personality. The disappearance of Kim and his cronies and the overall implosion of a struggling nation are clearly separate issues.