Sentencing of Laura Ling and Euna Lee Brings Wave of Bad Press for N. Korea

laura_ling_euna_lee.jpgBy holding two journalists as hostages (it’s now pretty much beyond denying) and sentencing them to 12 years of “reform through labor,” North Korea has managed to inflame the media in a way that starving 2 million people and putting 200,000 others in concentration camps never quite did.  With the attention to Ling and Lee comes a delayed epiphany:  maybe North Korea’s regime really is evil:

Better late than never.  Today, Kim Jong Il is getting so much bad press I barely have time to link all of it, much less analyze and quote it.

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4 Responses

  1. Because Kim Jong Il and his minions will care about what US newspapers say about them. Yes. Of course.

    50,000 signatures will surely impress him as well. Definitely.

    It’s also funny to observes how all the left-wing newspapers, who usually praise anything that goes into the area of communism and socialism, suddenly scream North Korea is “evil”. For how long will they do it?

    I guess it’ll be like with China, Tibet, Myanmar… it will go until either Obama visits another fastfood joint, or until Paris Hilton buys a pink elephant or something like that. Once that happens Ling and Lee will be forgotten. Maybe these newspapers can distract themselves from reality with writing about Michelle O’s shoes again. Or about her makeup or something.

  2. It’s also funny to observes how all the left-wing newspapers, who usually praise anything that goes into the area of communism and socialism, suddenly scream North Korea is “evil”. For how long will they do it?

    You’ve lost me here. So…left-wing newspapers should logically support Kim Jong Il? What newspapers are you referring to? And isn’t the ‘left’ typically associated — in the ‘west’ at least — with pro-Tibetan advocacy? Conservatives have a word for them, don’t they — ‘hippies’ or something? Speaking of Tibet, it may interest you, Mr Kolb, to know that the Dalai Lama considers himself half-Marxist, half-Buddhist

    Normally I would avoid engagement with posts like this, and I don’t want to go too far off-topic, but this kind of pig-headed simplification of the so-called political spectrum is rampant and unhelpful, and a pet peeve of mine.