Two Dispatches from Good Friends
Blogging will have to be light for a while, but fortunately, I’m now on the distro list for Good Friends, which welcomes recipients to redistribute its dispatches. Ven. Pomnyun also said Good Friends will increase the volume of dispatches it publishes. I’m going to republish two of them today, one of which I’ve grafed before. The obvious cautions apply, but overall, the evidence suggests that trends are very bleak in the short term — famine is killing a lot of North Korean kids, especially orphans — and modestly hopeful in the longer term — there is a lot of discontent among the people, including officials who have compassion for those they can’t help. Read the rest on your own.