RES: a trip to North Korea

Gordon Fitch gcf at panix.com
Sat Apr 22 21:31:22 PDT 2000


Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
> >> No, I'd criticize North Korea more freely, *if* I were a North
> >> Korean, but I'm *not*.

Dennis:
> >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.

Brad De Long:
> Plus it causes most everybody else you talk to to conclude that you
> are a monster raving loon...

Isn't there an epistemological problem here? How do we know things about North Korea?



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