25 February 2010: Your Must Reading for Today

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Must Read No. 1: Christian Whiton, “How to Weaken Kim’s Grip”

Must Read No. 2: B.R. Myers, “North Korea’s Race Problem”

Must Read No. 3: Don Kirk writes on China and sanctions-busting.

Despite all the food aid North Korea is receiving, one-third of North Koreans are still in need.

Oh, No: I sense a great disturbance in the force.

You Don’t Say, Pt. 1: The Federation of American Scientists is worried about North Korea selling man-portable anti-aircraft missiles, quite possibly to terrorists. President Bush removed North Korea from the list of state sponsors of terrorism on October 11, 2008, and President Obama recently refused to reverse this decision. Discuss among yourselves.

You Don’t Say, Pt. 2: Pro-North Korean schools in Japan have an image problem.

Quote of the day: “A single photograph has become the symbol of North Korea’s utter darkness, moral, political, economic and technological. It shows the two Koreas at night by satellite. The cities of the South are ablaze with electric light. In the North, there is only a single, dim pinprick of illumination, the capital Pyongyang; surrounded by a black void, a country hidden from sight, held prisoner in the dark, a vast memory hole.”

Open Radio interviews a Yodok survivor.