RES: a trip to North Korea

[Brad De Long]

>On Sat, 22 Apr 2000, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>
>>  No, I'd criticize North Korea more freely, *if* I were a North
>>  Korean, but I'm *not*.
>
>I'll believe that the precise moment you can find me a North
>Korean who openly criticized their own government and lived
>to tell about it.
>
>As a general principle, First World radicals shouldn't nail their
>flags to the masts of Third World one-party states of whatever political
>provenance. That's not our job.
>
>-- Dennis

Plus it causes most everybody else you talk to to conclude that you 
are a monster raving loon...

Brad DeLong