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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: JohnM who wrote (46957)9/25/2002 7:38:31 PM
From: LindyBill  Read Replies (3) of 281500
 
Wow, Talk about a "Personality Cult!" The real meaning of "Your Sh*t doesn't stink!" Snippet from "Reason"

>>>>>North Korea has been taking measurable steps toward joining the civilized world.

As Reuters reports, these include "unprecedented events such as starting to reconnect rail and road links through the heavily mined North-South border, steps to reform its near-moribund economy and moving to improve ties with long-time foes, notably Japan." Specifically, North Korea has officially apologized to Japan for kidnapping close to a dozen Japanese citizens in the late 1970s and '80s as part of a bizarre plan to train spies. North Korea is also opening a second free trade zone and begging the U.S. to begin normalizing relations.

While the North Korean government had shown signs of liberalizing over the past decade or so, there's no question its inclusion in George W. Bush's "axis of evil" has pushed forward reform measures. North Korea's motives are undoubtedly mixed?and its history is one of unmitigated horror against its neighbors and its own citizens. But for a politically autistic country that has sustained the planet's most bizarre trans-generational cult of personality (a recent refugee noted in his memoir that he and his friends were raised to believe father-son dictators Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il were such "perfect beings...that neither of them defecated or urinated") and whose chief output for decades has been starving children, this represents real progress.

Indeed, if the Hermit Kingdom actually opens up and joins even the pre-modern world, it will represent one of the great foreign policy successes of the Bush administration.<<<<<<<
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