It would be interesting to find out if the typical North Korean has any concept of the meaning of freedom. It would seem that it is a universal concept, but without experiencing it does it mean anything other than a fine sounding word?
If you hermetically seal of a country, you can brainwash people.
Many North Koreans are probably brainwashed.
The NYT author concludes from this that we should therefore appease the regime.
Appeasement and/or surrender is the answer to every problem the U.S. faces in the world, in the minds of those who work at the NYT. They are idiots.
I bet the North Korean people would be as out of place in our country as Mars aliens would be...
But, that doesn't mean that they shouldn't have the chance.
I also think that there are certain foreign policies that are better left untold to the world...so I truly think that President Bush has a method to his "madness".
Actually, I wish the US would talk LESS about their foreign policy plans...