After reading this book, a surgical strike against Pyongyang would not be a bad idea
2006-05-21 00:00:00
The greatest crime of the West has been to stand by while brutal regimes by Kim Il Sung and others flourish. If there is any charge to level against liberalism in general, it is that as a movement, it has never thought to take brutal and swift action against the Sungs, Mao Tse Tungs, and Stalins of the world. In fact they have have always mocked conservatives for wanting to do so. Liberals always wait for the hammer to fall and then they act. Things are not evil to most liberal politicians until they happen to Americans. This lack of species loyalty is what characterizes the American liberal (again speaking generally. Their ire falls mainly on conservative or fascist regimes.
Horrific but true.....
2006-05-21 00:00:00
The Aquariums of Pyongyang was one of the most difficult books I've ever read. Difficult in the way that it describes, first hand, the conditions of daily life in the North, not to mention the gulag.
This book should be MANDATORY reading for all Americans, and for that matter for all residents of the western hemisphere who are unaware of the realities of North Korea. The human rights crisis taking place there demands that we all understand what is happening in this part of the world. This book does a great job of furthering that understanding.
This book should be MANDATORY reading for all Americans, and for that matter for all residents of the western hemisphere who are unaware of the realities of North Korea. The human rights crisis taking place there demands that we all understand what is happening in this part of the world. This book does a great job of furthering that understanding.