ANSWER envy

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>----- 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

What do you have to say about North Korea, North Koreans, and US 
policy toward them other than that you differ from the WWP?  I almost 
think that "North Korea" and "North Koreans" exist in the minds of 
LBO-talkers only to the extent that the WWP editorialize about them.
-- 
Yoshie

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