Anju, February 19, 2012

I just can’t understand why South Koreans who ostensibly support the idea a free society so fundamentally misunderstand that idea. Rather than make free-speech martyrs out of imbeciles, wouldn’t it make more sense to engage in the war of ideas on both sides of the DMZ? Are they really so afraid that a majority of South Koreans are going to prostrate themselves toward Pyongyang? Is such a majority even capable of self-government anyway? Are they really so afraid to speak honestly to the North Korean people? Wouldn’t that entire issue be resolved soon enough if South Korea did more to broadcast alternative viewpoints and forbidden truths into North Korea?

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Plan B Watch:  No, we’re not doing this to North Korea yet, but it certainly seems like an idea worth exploring. ______________________________________     Hmmm:   North Korea’s Commerce Minister dies in a helicopter crash. ______________________________________  How can that be?   China reportedly ships 500,000 tons of (presumably unmonitored) rice to the North Korean regime, yet “malnutrition rates remain high throughout the country.”