North Korea has allowed 300 Americans in for 48 hours. The journalists' accounts that I've read so far are surreal. The stirring performance by the New York Philharmonic Orchestra before an audience of neatly coiffed men in dark suits and women in colorful hanboks; the tour of the Grand People's Study House, an immaculate library where, while neatly-dressed patrons stared at computers, "no one was waiting, no one came and no one left." This is truly a historic event, but it's tough to shut out the images of smuggled video footage showing public executions of dissidents and starving people just 2 years ago. What's really going on there?
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Arirang, Pyongyang-style
North Korea has allowed 300 Americans in for 48 hours. The journalists' accounts that I've read so far are surreal. The stirring performance by the New York Philharmonic Orchestra before an audience of neatly coiffed men in dark suits and women in colorful hanboks; the tour of the Grand People's Study House, an immaculate library where, while neatly-dressed patrons stared at computers, "no one was waiting, no one came and no one left." This is truly a historic event, but it's tough to shut out the images of smuggled video footage showing public executions of dissidents and starving people just 2 years ago. What's really going on there?
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NK Sucks!!! Get the people out of there. Thanks for reminding folks to think - Kim is a mad man hell bent on ruining his country and his people, and to give him any sort of credence is to feed the machine that is killing thousands of koreans every day!
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