RES: a trip to North Korea

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sun Apr 23 11:59:16 PDT 2000


Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:


>But it won't make anything better for any North Korean; it will only
>reinforce the long-standing reactionary U.S. government policy
>toward North Korea and other poor nations (especially Cuba, Iraq,
>Yugoslavia, etc. that are under its sanctions). I suppose that's
>the foremost political duty of American "leftists." What America
>does to the rest of the world, if they ever disobey, is to napalm
>them first and laugh at their scarred faces later.

If you're saying that's what NK-criticizing leftists do, then that's libelous nonsense. If that's not what you're saying, then I'm at a loss to figure out what your point is.

Some leftists apparently like to defend North Korea because it helps position themselves as more righteous & militant than those who won't. That doesn't make any North Korean better off, either.

Doug



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