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Politics : I Will Continue to Continue, to Pretend....
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To: Sully- who wrote (8173)3/3/2005 10:06:36 PM
From: Sully-   of 35834
 
Here is an email Hewitt got about the LA Times NK propaganda
piece. Incidentally, the reporter for the rag who wrote it is
the SK Bureau chief for the LA Times!

"I must say that after reading "N. Korea Without the Rancor", that I find myself overwhelmed. If your correspondent had no idea that she was being used by the North Korean government, she is either horribly naive or worse, an apologist for the most repressive regime on the face of the earth. Clearly that was no businessman, because no one speaks to a reporter in that fashion other than at the direction of Mr. Kim.

I am married to a Korean and lived there for 15 years of my life. Her family walked hundreds of miles pulling a cart with 5 children under 8 years of age to escape the onslaught of the North Korean assault in 1950 and almost starved in the countryside. Many of her relatives perished and some still reside in the living hell of North Korea. It was almost humorous to read the "businessman's" description of life in North Korea. The six hours of electricity he talks about is only in Pyongyang and those in Pyongyang are the elite of society. Those not so fortunate receive no electricity and face the prospect of living in a gulag if they complain. Spies are everywhere with relatives reporting on each other, neighbors working for the security apparatus; radios and tv sets with but one station that spouts the evil propaganda of Kim Jong Il; and citizens thrown in jail for something as innocent as throwing a newspaper with the picture of Mr. Kim in the trash.

For shame! You have shown a callousness that I find unbelievable. With 100's of thousands in N.Korean gulags and South Koreans living next to a madman with his trigger finger possibly on a nuclear weapon, you choose to put a "human" face on N. Korea. Unbelievable."

hughhewitt.com
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