It is not often that I would refer to the Sun newspaper here but there is a good article today by Oliver Harvey on "The Nightmare World of North Korea". The opening of the article could be used as a model for a journalism class:IN a cold sweat, I was led away by the jackbooted and armed North Korean border guards to a bleak side room.If you were being picky, you might say that there is not much real drama - a brief trip for journalists, a 15 minute scary interview and a 100 dollar fine; but I would disagree and take my hat off to the guy. He took a significant risk by trying to get some good photos and he wasn't to know what the consequences were. His article also gives a good description of the paranoia and numbness induced by Kim Jon-il's ghastly regime. The online version has a video clip with some covert footage he managed to get from inside North Korea.
My crime was that I’d disobeyed strict orders and taken pictures of the Stalinist dictatorship’s long-suffering people and the ruthless military who keep them suppressed.
I'm afraid I did laugh at this bit (italics original):
[I] remembered The Sun’s witty headline, “How Do You Solve A Problem Like Korea?” printed when Kim tested a nuclear device in 2006.I bet it didn't!
At that moment, it didn’t seem all that funny.
H/T Kevin Knight at New Advent.
4 comments:
me too. This is no ordinary journalistic hyperbole. What they do to people in North Korea makes the Nazis look unimaginative.
When human beings deliberately cut themselves off from The Creator through pride, greed, lust for power etc... the devil takes great delight in twisting that 'soul-less and God-less' human person into an instrument of evil.
Mr Kim Jon Il must be a very sad, frightened, paranoid and empty person indeed. He has a 'God shaped' vacuum inside himself that nothing other than Jesus Christ can fill. We should make an effort to pray for this man and also remember the North Korean people in our prayers.
'How do you solve a problem like Korea'? - with PRAYER of course!
he's a monster. He should be killed.
After that we can pray for his soul.
If he died unrepentant there would hardly be any point though, would there?
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