Korea at night from space: A photo is worth 1,000 words. This one says it all.
doctorbulldog.wordpress.comA sudden influx of visitors coming to my DMZ tour post from a few years back via a Google search forwarns me something is up on the Korean peninsula. And usually it's because of a bad thing--the North flexing military power on land or sea belonging to South Korea or threatening the United States, whom they view as the Republic's enemy number one.
This time, however, the news is different--although not unexpected. Kim Jong Il, age 69, is dead. As tyrants go he was not as bad as Saddam Hussein or Muammar Gaddafi but a tyrant never the less. I can only hope his son Kim Jong Eun, like most twenty-somethings worldwide, was an early adopter and has grown up with the Internet.
If anything can lead to the democratization of North Korea, it's the freedom of expression inherently found here.
A new dawn for Korea?
A new dawn for Korea?
ReplyDeleteThat's what they said when he took power from his father.
Don't hold your breath this time either. They're still stuck in 1936.
Not as bad as Saddam Hussein or Kadaffi??? What world do you live in, Larry? What an ignorant statement on your part.
ReplyDeleteLet's see, his people are starving so badly that they are actually stunted in growth as compared to S. Koreans, while he spends their meager budget developing nukes which he tried to proliferate by building a secret facility in Syria. A veritable saint.
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't be as harsh as Anon 1:42but North Korea's leaders' crimes against humaity have not yet been gotten the scrutiny they deserve. I think that, when it comes to authoritarianism and the systematic daily use of terror against human beings that it requires, Kim may have the others beat. This is really one of the last societies on the planet to come into the light, as your overhead view so clearly demonstrates.
ReplyDeleteI think it's unfair to come here to read what's on Larry's mind, and then to trash him as "ignorant". If that's the case, then why come back?
I did not say Larry was ignorant. I said his comment was an ignorant comment. It shows his ignorance of the situation in North Korea. I stand by my comment.
ReplyDeleteI doubt it.
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