A Nuclear North Korea

Not really new news...

The AP via ABCNews: N. Korea Announces It Has Nuclear Weapons

North Korea's "nuclear weapons will remain (a) nuclear deterrent for self-defense under any circumstances," the [North Korean Foreign Ministry] said. It said Washington's alleged attempt to topple the North's regime "compels us to take a measure to bolster its nuclear weapons arsenal in order to protect the ideology, system, freedom and democracy chosen by its people."

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For months, North Korea has lashed out at what it calls U.S. attempts to demolish the regime of leader Kim Jong Il and meddle in the human rights situation in the North.

Copyright 2005 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

I wonder what it's like to work at that place. Fundamentally, it's no different from working at any other government agency in the world, but the degree of deception is so much greater. Though it is entirely possible the person who actually wrote/typed that down believes in grossly warped concepts of "freedom," "chosen," and "human rights," I can't simply assume he or she is willfully ignorant of the reality on the ground, where those three have largely been left to the whim of the commies in power.

I shall toast the day the government of North Korea falls and the individuals within it are reintroduced to humanity. I expect that day to come in my lifetime, the second falling of a "Berlin Wall." The survivors will walk into the daylight, blinking and wondrous. The autobiographies, personal anecdotes, and insider's histories will pour out years later, adding further weight to the heavy record of empirical failure generated by communism, socialism, central planning, and government-forced social engineering.

I predict that even after this occurs, the vast majority of the world won't absorb the most crucial lesson from the event. They'll cluck their teeth about "tyranny" and "dictatorships" and condemn the obvious examples of human rights abuse while the only slightly less obvious examples lay strewn about them. They'll say they're against any government treating the citizens within it's borders like cattle, like tools to be used to some end...and then go right ahead and advocate that very same ideology be used in their own society.

Previous posts on North Korea, not all of which I'm in agreement with: North Korea Whips It Out, North Korea, Cut Off The Aid!, North Korea Formally Welcomed to the Political Realm, and When the Levy Breaks...

Posted by Drizzten at February 10, 2005 08:47 AM