Archive for December, 2006
Posted by Joshua Stanton on December 28, 2006 at 1:05 am · Filed under NK Military, U.S. Military
Previous post here. In this photograph, one of them is being escorted by a U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel and a South Korean First Lieutenant — without the use of a Baby Bjorn, which is not authorized with the uniform. He looks thrilled to be on his way home, which is what you’d expect for a guy found adrift and near death on a raft in the Sea of Japan in December.
I’m sad that our Army had any part in this dubious transfer, notwithstanding the obvious value of the photo op.
(Photo: Joongang Ilbo)
Posted by Joshua Stanton on December 28, 2006 at 12:46 am · Filed under WTF?, Korean Society
I am not making this up.
Posted by Joshua Stanton on December 28, 2006 at 12:45 am · Filed under Korean Politics
I didn’t bother fisking President Roh’s latest attack of the vapors, because I didn’t have to.
“It’s evident that any missiles North Korea fires won’t target South Korea. So why should the government step forward and tell people to stock up on instant noodles and buy gas masks in preparation for missile attacks from the North?” Referring to parliamentary confirmation hearings of ministers-designate who were asked what caused the Korean War, he complained that lawmakers evidently take him for a man who would appoint ministers who don’t know if it was an invasion by North or South. But, he insisted, “I am sane.”
Roh also accused the U.S. of a hand in getting him down. “Those who send danger signals in the U.S. are involved in a program to depress my spirits.” He said they are making him miserable with their attempts to “teach him a lesson” and their constant signals that the Korea-U.S. alliance is going to the dogs.
I know what you’re thinking: it’s going to be a long year. Actually, it’s going to be even longer. We’ve known for a long time that the Uri Party was headed for the trash heap, Roh Moo Hyun’s desperation to preserve it notwithstanding. The result of this “emergency meeting” between Comrade Chung and Kim Geun-Tae will be a proposed new far-left political party (kukmin-ui shin dang, New Peoples’ Party), one that’s too far to the left for even the noisily irrelevant Roh Moo Hyun. We can expect plenty of gratuitous America-bashing from these two, both before and after the moment when they turn on each other. But at least we’ll get a clear national referendum on this party’s politics, which Washington ought to read that result as if it were a biopsy on that foreign mass growing inside the head of Korean society.
Posted by Joshua Stanton on December 23, 2006 at 11:31 am · Filed under Uncategorized
It’s the best result we could possibly have hoped for from this worn-out charade.
The U.S. delegation seems to have gone out of its way in the talks. Hill was quoted by China’s People’s Daily as saying his North Korean counterpart Kim Kye-gwan “is obviously professional, and he has a lot of experience, so because he has more experience than I do in nuclear negotiations, it made me have to work hard. I have to do a lot of homework in order to meet with him.” … Meanwhile, Daniel Glaser, the U.S. Treasury Department’s deputy assistant secretary for terrorist financing and financial crimes, used words like “productive” and “useful” to describe two days of talks on U.S. financial sanctions on the Macau-based Banco Delta Asia with the North Korean side in a bid to soften the atmosphere. [here]
Heave a mighty sigh of relief; after all, Kim Jong Il’s own propaganda machine had already excluded the possibility that he would disarm. The danger was that a desperate Bush Administration would validate that propaganda to exit from office under the cover of a deal — any deal — and pass this fetid status quo down the road. One or two more slow learners have now concluded that there’s no dealing with North Korea. Selig Harrison and Wendy Sherman look incrementally dumber than they did last week. Roh Moo Hyun’s approval rating may now be lower than Emperor Hideyoshi’s. We’ve picked up another great excuse to proceed with the Great Unplugging of Kim Jong Il, and Tom Lantos is less likely to oppose it. As Richardson put it, our “Or Else, What?” moment has arrived (again). And we owe it all to Kim Jong Il’s own stupidity. Look what the AP’s Bo-Mi Lim, usually a transparent proponent of “engagement” reports:
In more than three years of meetings, the North has only committed in principle to disarm but taken no concrete steps to do so — instead going ahead with its first nuclear test on Oct. 9.
“There will be opinions questioning the credibility of the six-party talks,” Japanese envoy Kenichiro Sasae said, without elaborating. He did not say what alternative formats would be proposed, if any.
The U.S. envoy accused North Korea ahead of Friday’s meetings of not addressing the actual issue of its atomic programs.
“When the (North) raises problems, one day it’s financial issues, another day it’s something they want but they know they can’t have, another day it’s something we said about them that hurt their feelings,” U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill said. “What they need to do is to get serious about the issue that made them such a problem … their nuclear activities.”
In other words, we extracted all the cosmetic value we could have wanted from these talks, and substantively, North Korea has made it clear that we’re getting nowhere slowly:
Even when it takes up the nuclear issue, Kim said the North wouldn’t immediately talk about dismantling the bombs it has already made. But he promised the North won’t launch a nuclear attack or sell its atomic technology.
“Since we are already a proud nuclear state, we have already announced that we will not threaten other countries with nuclear (weapons) and fully live up to our responsibility of preventing proliferation,” Kim said.
Feel better? You shouldn’t.
The United States should consider the danger that we could transfer nuclear weapons to terrorists, that we have the ability to do so.
– North Korean Vice Foreign Minister Kim Gye-Gwan, April 2005
Those words, in themselves, are a causus belli. It is simply our inability to take evil at its face value that prevents us from constructing and pursuing a policy designed to deal with this evil at its source. I don’t believe that this war is best fought, at the least cost, though conventional means, but the North Korean regime will continue to pursue more efficient means to murder until it is destroyed.
Posted by Joshua Stanton on December 22, 2006 at 9:58 am · Filed under An Alliance?, Korean Politics, U.S. Military, ROK Military
… inside his own party.
The president also laid into three aspiring candidates in next year’s presidential election, describing his appointment of the moderate Goh Kun as his first prime minister as “a failure.” “I chose Goh in the hope that he would become a bridge bringing me closer to conservatives, but it alienated me and the government from them instead,” Roh said.
His decision to appoint Uri Party hopefuls Kim Geun-tae and Chung Dong-young as health and unification ministers was equally disappointing, he said. Roh compared himself to U.S. president Lincoln, saying his appointment of Kim and Chung to his Cabinet was motivated by “a similar engagement principle.” “I did the same as Lincoln. The difference is that I came under fire for doing so. It’s very depressing. I tried to copy Lincoln but it didn’t work. It’s no fun at all.”
No word on whether he gets the point as it applies to North Korea, however. Roh’s speech was also noteworthy in that he said something rational:
Roh said the government seeks the handover to prepare for any emergency in North Korea. “Would we have anything to say to China and North Korea when we can’t even control our own troops in wartime and can’t decide whether to bomb a civilian facility in the North and which facility to target?” he asked. “This is diplomatically very important.”
That’s a valid criticism of Korea’s previous defense policies, and it’s legitimate for any nation to seek the independent pursuit of any of the essential trappings of sovereignty, including defense and diplomacy. The problem is not one of objective — where Roh is much more right than his critics — but of execution. Roh has alienated the United States with such inexplicable suddenness and bitterness that his successor will have no choice but to build that independent defense on a timetable that will do to the South Korean economy what French defensive driving did to Princess Di. He may even have timed it for the very moment his country will need to absorb 23 million destitute North Koreans.
Posted by Joshua Stanton on December 22, 2006 at 9:39 am · Filed under Six-Party Talks, Diplomacy
Despite this AP report that the talks are over, I’ll refrain from publishing my draft post until Hill actually leaves Beijing on Saturday, and possibly until his plane lands. While hopes for a successful outcome are high — and to me, that means continued impasse with maximum cosmetic value — it would be just like the North Koreans to revert to their bottom line negotiating position after all of the other delegates had packed their suitcases, especially right before Christmas. For the reasons I stated here, it’s objectively in North Korea’s interest to make some kind of deal now, because doing so would buy them at least two years of stall time. By then, they could get rid of the least-trusted 5-10% of their citizenry.
Posted by Joshua Stanton on December 21, 2006 at 8:02 pm · Filed under China, Human Rights, China & Korea, Human Trafficking
Apparently, North Korean restaurants are popular in China, for everyone except the young women who are forced to work in them. Fortunately, China is a good enough neighbor to help North Korea hunt the absconders down.
Remind you of anything?
This is about as clear a case of human trafficking as you’ll ever see. In a just world, China would get sanctions for this. In the world in which we really live, the James Bakers and Kofi Annans will never let that happen.
Posted by Joshua Stanton on December 20, 2006 at 8:22 pm · Filed under China, Human Rights, China & Korea, Refugees, Southeast Asia
Thanks to a reader for forwarding this.
Chiang Rai _ Immigration authorities in the North are going on the offensive to try to stem the influx of North Korean migrants by tipping off China where the migrants are hiding before they enter Thailand illegally. Pol Col Jessada Yaisoon, the immigration checkpoint chief for Mae Sai district, said immigration officers would use more pro-active measures which necessitate approaching China, the ‘’upstream country'’ of the problem. The government has been alarmed by the mounting number of North Korean migrants who have sneaked into Thailand, which they use as a springboard to third countries, mostly South Korea.
After leaving North Korea, the migrants go into hiding in China before travelling by boat to and then Thailand where they are met by brokers in Chiang Rai who provide them with lodging. The migrants then give themselves up to police and seek asylum in third countries.
Just to give you and idea of the lengths to which these people are going to escape North Korea, here’s a map of the region. Here’s a map of Thailand; Nong Khai is another refugee hot spot.
Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont has ordered the marine task force responsible for security along the Mekong river in Chiang Rai to map out a special operation plan to deter North Koreans from taking refuge in Thailand.
Task force chief Capt Sompong Nakthong said the prime minister’s order assigned his task force as the main unit in pushing back North Korean migrants.
The task force would locate the border areas where North Korean migrants ‘’come ashore'’ and where they are picked up by brokers. That information, as well as detailed measures for deterring the migrants, will be submitted to the prime minister later.
Capt Sompong said the gangs that helped smuggle in North Korean migrants were well-organised with connections with multi-national human trafficking networks firmly established in neighbouring countries.
Here is a Time Magazine profile of the Reverend Tim Peters, who leads one of those “gangs.” Tim is a friend, and one of the finest, most unselfish human beings I’ve ever met (you can contribute to his organization, Helping Hands Korea, here). He was recently shown in this CNN documentary while trying to help get North Korean refugees into the U.S. and South Korean embassies in Bangkok. Both embassies refused to provide any assistance, which is scandalous, and which was, in the case of the U.S. Embassy, is illegal — a blatant violation of Section 303 of the North Korean Human Rights Act of 2004, codified at 22 U.S.C. sec. 7843. It is a defiance of binding federal statue that is breathtaking for its sheer lawless arrogance, and our acceptance of token numbers of refugees cannot be regarded as a serious effort to address that defiance.
Pol Col Jessada Yasoon, head of the Mae Sai district immigration police, said authorities would contact their counterparts in China and supply them with information to track North Korean migrants while they are still on Chinese soil.Police have obtained details from arrested migrants concerning their whereabouts in China and what activities were involved in making their journey, he said.
He added that his office may also present Chinese authorities with a list of individuals suspected to be members of human-smuggling gangs.
Pol Col Jessada said the solution to the illegal entry problem may lie in serious suppression of the network of brokers.
According to statistics from Chiang Rai’s immigration authorities, 48 North Korean migrants were arrested in 2004, 100 in 2005 and up to 321 this year.
And why? Because the North Korean government’s starvation of its own people, which this must-read report recently called a “crime against humanity,” is ignored by most international news media. North Korea, which has been cleansing its countryside of politically suspect families for years now, was thus able to reject interrnational food aid without much more than a peep from the World Food Program or the big names of the Human Rights Industry, who were too preoccupied with fictitious gulags to concern itself with the real ones.
Repatriation Means Torture and Genocide
As early as 2003, the New York Times reported that China sends North Korean refugees back across the border “strung together with a wire through their noses.” The Times of London recently carried another report describing similar treatment:
THE North Korean refugee had one request for her captors before the young Chinese soldiers led her back across the steel-girdered bridge on the Yalu River that divides two “socialist allies”.
“She asked for a comb and some water because she said that if she was going to die she could not face going to heaven looking as dirty and dishevelled as this,” recounted a relative of one soldier who was there.
What happened next is testimony to the rising disgust in Chinese military ranks as Beijing posts more troops to the border amid a crisis with North Korea over its regime’s plan to stage a nuclear test.
The soldiers, who later told family members of the incident, marched the woman, who was about 30, to the mid-point of the bridge. North Korean guards were waiting. They signed papers for receipt of the woman, who kept her dignity until that moment. Then, in front of the Chinese troops, one seized her and another speared her hand — the soft part between thumb and forefinger — with the point of a sharpened steel cable, which he twisted into a leash.
“She screamed just like a pig when we kill it at home in the village,” the soldier later told his relative. “Then they dragged her away.”
These people, on the other hand, are the lucky ones. They got out alive. Others just like them won’t. Pay special attention to this baby’s face. North Korean police murder babies like her by stomping on their necks, smothering them, or leaving them outside to die of exposure. Why? Because babies born to refugee women are presumed “racially impure.” That’s the meaning of “never again” in places Kofi Annan’s U.N. chose not to see.
U.N. Impotence
It’s especially reprehensible for Thailand to do this, given that the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in North Korea, Vitit Muntarbhorn, is one of Thailand’s leading legal scholars. At long last, in 2005, declared North Korean refugees to be just that, and called on China to stop its repatriations. The General Assembly relied those reports in passing this resolution, in November of 2006. Among other things, that resolution condemned China (no, not by name, of course) for its flagrantly unlawful repatriations of these people to North Korean gulags. Now, Thailand is looking less like a democracy interrupted, and more like Southeast Asia’s newest ruthless dictatorship.
Another way to look at this? As a perfect illustration of the U.N.’s impotence. For years, the UNHCR has failed to give North Korean refugees any effective assistance while China blocked it from visiting areas near the North Korean border. Ditto the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights. (Congress should seriously consider withholding U.S. funds from the UNHCR and UNHCHR if neither will do its job.)
It will assuredly be a cold August day in Chiang Rai before I make plans to vacation there, and I would encourage everyone to let the Thai Embassy hear us. Making one’s country an accessory to infanticide is simply evil.
Posted by Joshua Stanton on December 20, 2006 at 4:24 pm · Filed under Terrorism/Iraq
How long before someone capable of attracting a microphone offers public support to the idea of negotiating with al-Qaeda, or whether such an idea will gain serious currency in our society?
Here are mine: Jim McDermott and Dennis Kucinich (James Baker would never say it publicly).
Posted by Joshua Stanton on December 20, 2006 at 12:53 pm · Filed under Six-Party Talks, Diplomacy, Counterfeiting, Money Laundering
The U.S. has said the question of North Korea’s frozen accounts in the Macau-based Banco Delta Asia could be resolved early if North Korea punishes counterfeiters of U.S. dollars and destroys their equipment. [link]
Firing squads and bloody handshakes to follow, and my sources tell me there may even be a ceremonial steamrolling of the HP Laserjet that was the center of this dastardly plan. I dare you to figure out where the satire ends and the “news” begins:
Ever since it froze the accounts, the U.S. was adamant that the North Korean regime must be held to account for the forgeries and rejected any face-saving solution whereby the North would punish nominal culprits as if they had acted independently — the very option it is proposing now.
Yes, they really are serious — as are your diplomatic representatives — in recommending the adoption of a theory that in the world’s most controlled society, rogue elements carried out an elaborate international racket over the course of 20 years, including all of the following:
* Making a contract with the sole supplier of a patented color-shifting ink, in this case, black-to-magenta, from the ink’s only manufacturer. In Switzerland.
* Meticulously designing and carving printing plates in sharper detail than the originals.
* Obtaining expensive intaglio printing presses (which few if any developing countries use).
* Reverse-engineering and manufacturing tons of colon-linen paper to match that used for printing U.S. currency;
* Building an entire printing plant –yes, an entire printing plant – for applying that special ink to those special plates, using that special press, onto that special paper, not in a remote abandoned warehouse or an abandoned mine, but at Printing House 62, an extension of North Korea’s national mint complex at Pyongsong, near Pyongyang;
* Exporting large quantities of that currency from North Korea, without the knowledge of North Korean authorities, despite the fact that it is illegal for North Koreans to possess U.S. currency.
I reckon that not a single reader believes that anyone in North Korea possesses that degree of extra-authoritarian sophistication (at least, that seems to be the general consensus here). More, I suspect, will simply ask, “Why not permit us all to have our little fictions to remove a greater obstacle to peace?” Leave aside the fact that this peace kills more people and causes more suffering than most wars. If I believed that entertaining such a fiction offered any more realistic prospect of bringing us to peace than, say, the pretense that North Korea isn’t in the uranium enrichment business, it might merit serious thought. But of course, it’s neither American instransigence nor even North Korean incorrigibility that bars us from the face-saving exit that our great South Korean blood allies have so persistently demanded. They could have simply traded the North Koreans’ dollar plates for the necessary components to print a few tons of these:
Win, win. Another chance for peace!
For decades, our North Korea policy has been built upon the creative pursuit of fictitous addresses for each fleeting meeting of the minds. All have led back to where we’ve been stuck all along: across variously shaped tables from an interlocutor who knows that no violation of basic standards of law or humanity will go unrewarded. Just as you can’t denuclearize a country that won’t admit that it broke its last three agreements* and created a uranium enrichment program – and then shared its poison fruit with A.Q. Khan and Khaddafy – we will not see the end of North Korea’s global crime wave without some admission of guilt or acceptance of its conviction. Convictions, sadly, are in short supply in this city.
Still, I have a few questions about how Peace in Our Time will work in practice:
- Will we verify that the North Koreans have indeed destroyed the presses, ink, and plates, or were we planning on taking their word for it?
- Would we insist on interviewing these “rogue elements,” or would it suffice to see any scapegoat in striped pajamas tied to a post and splattered off the face of Hell on Earth?
- What sort of compensation would we pay the North Koreans for yielding up their unique privilege of printing our money? One is entitled to wonder what it would cost us to get them out of their other rackets: growing and dealing dope, counterfeiting cigarettes, abducting other countries’ citizens, trading in rhino horn, and trafficking in WMD’s?
Last August, after years of neo-Clintonite dithering, this Administration had finally found the testicular fortitude to weaken this regime by attacking its financial lifelines without firing a single metallic projectile, and probably without doing significant further harm to the victims of Kim Jong Il’s famine. The available evidence had suggested that the threads holding this entire Gordian Knot together were rotting and brittle. Will we now throw away all of the leverage that we might have used to shed fundamental transparency on North Korea’s crimes, both great and petty? Or will we again have to pray that North Korea will do us the favor of being too stupid to take this deal and run like a thief?
* I refer to the Inter-Korean Denuclearization Agreement, the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, and the Agreed Framework.
Posted by Joshua Stanton on December 19, 2006 at 12:45 pm · Filed under Kim Jong Il, China & Korea, Kremlinology
GI Korea reports on possible Chinese efforts to groom Kim Jong Nam as North Korea’s Pu Yi. If so, I call dibs on the name “Outer Koguryo” for the Manchukuo of Tomorrow.
Posted by Joshua Stanton on December 19, 2006 at 12:33 pm · Filed under The Fifth Column
… and throwing Molotov cocktails is pro-democracy activism. Brought to you by (who else?) the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions.
Posted by Joshua Stanton on December 19, 2006 at 12:27 pm · Filed under WTF?, Korean Society
I heard about this Korean life insurance commercial. Ick.
Posted by Joshua Stanton on December 19, 2006 at 7:49 am · Filed under Famine & Food Aid, Human Rights, China & Korea, "United" Nations
One of the least recognized moral responsibilities assumed by authoritarian states is the responsibility for misspent words and wealth they choose to get into the business of controlling. For example, when the South Korean government dabbles in the control of objectionable speech, whether for political or nationalistic reasons, it assumes responsibility for the decision to license, by omission, (and sometimes, even to subsidize) other objectionable or controversial speech.
To a much greater extent, North Korea, which aspires to a higher degree of central economic planning than any other state, is responsible for its misspent national wealth when the great majority of its people enters winter on the brink of famine. In a planned economy, after all, one is not even permitted to accumulate independent wealth without fear of the forceful intervention of the state. The greatest part of the North’s resource misallocation is its stunning profligacy when it comes to arms spending. Reader James Chen also points us to this Wall Street Journal piece (subscription required) on the promiscuous decadence of North Korea’s ruling class, the class whose war against the other classes has now killed millions.
A North Korean businesswoman with heavy makeup and a bouffant hairdo studied herself in a mirror as she modeled fur-lined leather coats at a small store in this frigid northeast border city.
During a three-day excursion late last month, the woman also tried on shoes and looked at large-screen television sets before buying furniture and fresh fruit and heading home to Pyongyang, North Korea’s capital city.
The United Nations has called for a crackdown on luxury-goods shipments to North Korea as a way of pressuring the country to drop its atomic-weapons programs, which came under new fire after an October nuclear test. But even as a new round of arms-control talks gets under way in Beijing today, some of the country’s elite are heading to stores in China.
If anything, the uncertainty about the flow of fancy goods appears to have whetted the appetites of some privileged North Koreans — whose impoverished country cultivates a Spartan socialist image.
In Dandong, North Koreans, many wearing lapel pins with a picture of North Korea’s founding dictator, Kim Il Sung, stroll through hotels and department stores. Signs are often written in Korean, with storekeepers advertising computers, karaoke machines and the erectile-dysfunction drugs Viagra and Cialis.
A few North Koreans have bought new cars at a Toyota dealership near the Dandong customs checkpoint, according to a salesman. One man paid about $50,000 in cash for a luxury sedan.
Gold is also gaining a following. Wang Xiaoju, a saleswoman at the jewelry counter at Xin Yi Bai Department Store, says North Korean women come in nearly every day, mostly to buy gold chains and other gold jewelry.
So much for the spartan, monastic image of the cadres who lead the guerrilla state. So much as well for China’s good faith in enforcing U.N. Resolution 1718, which banned the sale of “luxury goods” to North Korea. Which of these items does not fit that definition? If Republicans ruled China, someone might even call them unilateralists.
A more interesting development is the fact that members of the elite are buying up real estate in Dandong, just across the Yalu River from Sinuiju, North Korea, and also one of the dingiest cities in the Chinese rust belt. At least one apparatchik reportedly paid $100,000 cash for an apartment overlooking the river. That, and the purchases of gold, evoke the sound of rat feet scratching against the floor of a leaky cargo hold. The regime also appears to be losing its ideological stanglehold on the elite, who have considerable access to the outside world.
These days in Pyongyang, members of the ruling class are ferried around in imported cars and live in well-appointed — and well-guarded — apartment complexes. Their children race around city parks on in-line skates and play American computer games.
Says Mr. Pak: “If you can afford to pay, there’s nothing you can’t get.”
The question is how much this matters. If the elite’s access to this relative luxury has purchased their loyalty, it won’t. On the other hand, those with their backs against the wall are more likely to resist than those with a way out, and much more than those who prefer the comforts of Beijing to bleak Pyongyang.
The people in North Korea’s blighted Northeast have fewer choices when things turn for the worse. They can die in place or face the deadly risks of crossing into China illegally. Their backs are against the fence. It is a formula for creating revolutionary social pressures, and I would like to believe that somewhere in Chongjin, a Korean Madame Defarge is knitting.
Posted by Joshua Stanton on December 18, 2006 at 3:11 pm · Filed under Uncategorized, Human Rights, China & Korea, Refugees
Underground railroad worker Phillip Buck, recently released from a Chinese prison, has told Melanie Kirkpatrick about his activities, his arrest, and even his new identity:
Pastor Buck is nothing if not determined. In 2002, while in a Southeast Asian country with a group of refugees he had guided there, his apartment in Yanji city, in northeast China, was raided. Nineteen refugees were captured and a copy of his passport was confiscated. With his identity now compromised, Mr. Buck returned to the U.S. and underwent legal proceedings to change his name. John Yoon, the name he was born with, was dead; Phillip Buck was born.
The new Pastor Buck returned to China, where, on May 25, 2005, he was arrested and eventually convicted of the crime of helping illegal immigrants. Thanks to the intervention of the U.S. government, he was deported before he could be sentenced.
He Kirkpatrick also relates the tale of a North Korean camp survivor who accompanied him Buck at the interview:
One morning at roll call, he recounts, one of his cellmates, a man who had been badly beaten during the night, was too sick to get out of bed. The guards ordered the prisoners to carry the injured man into the woods and bury him. “I keep thinking, maybe he would still be alive if we hadn’t buried him,” the escapee says. The name of the dead man was Kim Young Jin. The name of the prison is Chong Jin. Says the man who escaped: “I am very glad to be here, and tell the people in America how life in North Korea really is.”
Well, yes, but for the fact that doing so might deceive some people out of the idea that Gitmo is the worst place on earth, a theory put into perspective by my friend and co-author, Gordon Cucullu.
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