[Louis Foxwell]

Spoken as a true Christian aparatchek. Clearly political issues hold sway over humanitarian concerns in this divided nation.
I am deeply disturbed as a fellow Christian that there is no attempt to encourage North Koreans, reduced to eating the bark from trees, to escape to the South and be assimilated. Why is there no underground railroad freeing the slaves of the North? Why is the answer to the death of hundreds of thousands by starvation always couched in a dehumanizing political context?
South Korea could end the evil regime by applying some of their vaunted Christian compassion in the form of offering hope to people who have no hope.
Surely they are clever enough to figure out how to do this in a systematic, organized fashion.
The simple, awful truth remains that the South enforces the rigidity and evil of the North by refusing to offer sanctuary to some of the most blighted people in the world.

[Wonder Warthog]

Baloney. The problem is that the regime in the North has set up essentially impenetrable barriers to people trying to leave. "Lack of Christian compassion" by South Korea has zip to do with it. There is this thing called the "de-militarized zone" (which is anything BUT) along the entire border between the two countries. Exactly HOW is the South supposed to set up an "underground railroad" through THAT???

Your "thesis" is laughable.

[Old_Mil]

I am deeply disturbed as a fellow Christian that there is no attempt to encourage North Koreans, reduced to eating the bark from trees, to escape to the South and be assimilated. Why is there no underground railroad freeing the slaves of the North?

One: there is a small underground network attempting to free people who wish to leave North Korea.

Two: it's not bigger than it is because there aren't many Chrisitans in North Korea.

Three: you don't just walk through the middle of a minefield through the NK army and a DMZ to freedom.

I do believe you've revealed your utter ignorance of this issue.

[Rytwyng]

I am deeply disturbed as a fellow Christian that there is no attempt to encourage North Koreans, reduced to eating the bark from trees, to escape to the South and be assimilated. Why is there no underground railroad freeing the slaves of the North?

Like, duh -- the border is militarized! North Koreans CAN'T get into the south.