ANSWER envy

[Nathan Newman]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Yoshie Furuhashi" <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu>
>Most LBO-talkers' opinions about North Korea, I expect, may be summed
>up in one short statement: "I condemn both the USG and the NKG," with
>some additional words of condemnation of the NKG's starving millions
>of people with a view to feeding its military first.

So why does anyone defend the WWP?  Year after year, they run personality
cult celebrations of Kim Il Sung.

http://www.workers.org/marcy/cd/sam94/1994html/s940721.htm
"Workers World Party values our close, comradely relations with the Workers
Party of Korea very highly. We are proud to have known Kim Il Sung as a
great leader and a comrade in the international communist movement. And it
is with the most profound sense of loss that we mark his passing."

http://www.workers.org/ww/2002/korea0425.php
"Koreans today are celebrating. The April 15 holiday is the occasion of
immense national pride in Korea's achievements under Kim Il Sung's
leadership. It is also a celebration of the continuity of leadership
represented by unity around his successor, Kim Jong Il, who is pledged to
follow the course of national independence and socialist construction
charted by Kim Il Sung."

-- Nathan