Starvation Is Paradise--My emaciated childhood in the North Korean workers' utopia.

Frontpagemagazine/London Times ^ | 10-16-06 | Hyok Kang

[piasa]

There are some leftists who would gladly support a North Korean-style tyranny in America, provided that they were the ones running it.

Like this leftist :

* Richard Becker : Richard Becker the leader of International ANSWER, and a "party leader" in the Workers World Party vigorously supports Communist China and Kim Jong II's regime in North Korea, and defends the likes of Saddam Hussein and Slobodan Milosevic; the Yugoslav war criminal on trial at the Hague for genocide. ------ "Know Thy Fellow Protester," By Jonathan Lewis, http://www.usainreview.com/2_17_Anti_War_Protests.htm:

[JustDoItAlways]

We owe it to our fellow human beings to lift them out of bondage.

The days of the kings, dictators, theocracies, gangs and tribal chiefs is over. The human race has moved beyond that. We have modern government options available and the best to date is based on freedom, democracy and free-enterprise economics.

We need to kick the dictators out. We need to liberate our fellow humans beings from being subject to control of terror-based regimes. The problem with kicking dictators out is WMD. Once they got it, you can't get rid of them. With technology spreading so fast in today's world, we only have 20 years to get rid of them all.

I wish there was an easy way with North Korea. But there isn't. It is too late. The North Korean people have to do it themselves without allowing the Kim terror gang to push the WMD button as a last gasp.

[hedgie]

South Korea props up North Korea because South Korea is terrified of the economic consequences of reunifying with a bunch of brainwashed human skeletons, even though they are people's second cousins.

[piasa]

There is another reason to investigate some of the groups behind the protests, and it has nothing to do with possible violence. One of the main anti-war groups, International ANSWER, has identified communists in its ranks who have traveled to such places as Baghdad under Saddam Hussein, Cuba and North Korea. But the FBI does not seem to be investigating whether the group has received funds or direction from abroad.
International ANSWER is a front of the communist Workers World Party. Back in 1974, the House Committee on Internal Security published a report on the WWP, noting its involvement in prison disruptions, support for Arab terrorists, and links to North Korea and Cuba. Today, however, there are no congressional committees dedicated to monitoring and investigating such activities. -------- "The Times Versus the FBI," By Cliff Kincaid, Accuracy in Media, December 19, 2003

[rmlew]

I understand why they do it in a theoretical sense. It is the utter craveness that horrifies me.
Heaven forbid that some people give up playing Everquest.

[JasonC]

Of course it is entirely credible, the same thing has happened in half a dozen countries, everyone ought to know what North Korea is. There are no excuses for any of it, yet the world does not care a lick.

[silverleaf]

But war is not the answer

(according to a sign in my well-fed liberal neighbor's yard)

[tflabo]

We should have let Gen. MacArthur off the leash in the Korean War in the early 50's. Instead of utterly defeating North Korea and playing diplomacy games we could have prevented North Korea becoming a communist /socialist tyrant state.
Careful you democrats....socialism = dictators.... FOOLS.

[sasha123]

Sounds like an excellent book. I will definitely get it.

Another book from someone who escaped N Korea is 'Eyes of the Tailless Animals' by Soon OK Lee. She was a gov't worker, then sent to prison. It is her story of life inside N Korea Prisons. Very disturbing book, but enlightening.

[hardworking]

Careful you democrats....socialism = dictators.... FOOLS

I think that you may miss a point, and that is that Liberals a.k.a. Dems WANT dictators and that is because they fancy themselves as BEING those dictators. Oh, they would NEVER use so crass a word as 'dictator'. No indeedy. They are LEADERS. But the result they desire is the same. They WANT socialism and they WANT a single dictatorial government that controls every aspect of human life. That is why 'leaders' such as Castro, 'Dung' in No. Korea, Wacko in Iran, etc, hold such fascination for them.

[sasha123]

If you think that sounds bad, just imagine how the political prisoners or those who steal food are treated in labor prisons. pure evil.

[pandoraou812]

What hell that place must be.

[visualops]

Oh my Lord.
Just the other day- I told my husband that when the day comes when people see what it's really like in there- it will be far worse than any of us imagine.

[grame]

The Aquariums of Pyong Yang is a difficult read, but the same story. A young North Korean boy who spent 10 years in a prison camp. It contains the same theme of how effective the brainwashing is.

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bump - what you said.

[blam]

"There are some leftists who would gladly support a North Korean-style tyranny in America, provided that they were the ones running it."

Yup. That's why they don't want me to have a gun.

[maine-iac7]

There are some leftists who would gladly support a North Korean-style tyranny in America, provided that they were the ones running it.

Straight truth.

The communist/fascist/Nazi personality is in every society - all it takes is for that one last breakdown for it to break out and run amok.

[Army Air Corps]

"If this is the state of his (Kim's) country, what exactly is he in charge of?"

A gulag.

The liberals love to use the words "Police State" with regard to law enforcement in the US. Send them to the DPRK to learn what the words "Police State" really mean.

[murphE]

Thanks for posting this video link.

[Mercat]

We just spent two and a half weeks in Ireland. It's very prosperous now but in the mid 19th century was the great hunger, the famine when half the people died or immigrated. The same phenomenon of eating grass and bugs went on. Even now, we noticed that there are fewer birds and insects and even road kill than you would expect.