Comments on: Alejandro Cao de BenÃ³s Interview â€“ Part 3

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 09:58:59 +0000

Wish I saw this when it was first published. I disagree with bl above. I think Alejandro is very intelligent. He’s just bordering on, if not weighed down by narcissistic personality disorder (full of himself), or he’s suffering from Aspergers. Either way this is a man who’s taken on a cause to such an extreme that is insulting to anyone who genuinely cares about the North Koreans struggling under that stinking regime.

I don’t care if he is fond of the DPRK or regards them as misunderstood, but to be so devious as to worm his way into the fringes of this regime over several years, paint himself as their spokesman to the West and make statements like “North Koreans would never accept a leader imposed from above” is a shocking distortion of the truth and is spitting in the face of every victim of that dictatorship.

I dearly hope that one day the people revolt, and I pray that Alejandro is in the middle of it when it happens.

By: bl

bl — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 00:38:10 +0000

I feel sorry in a strange kind of way for this Cao de BenÃ³s: he’s obviously a man of limited intelligence, and probably has been brainwashed too- I found it particularly sad in the last part of the interview where he said that he let this obsession get in the way of his family relationships, friendships and his paying a high personal price for these activities. Obviously, his conduct in representing such a disgusting rÃ©gime which goes against all the principles of democracy and self-determination any true socialist (socialist, not stalinist or supporter of the former neo-stalinist regimes) holds dear is reprehensible, however I don’t think he can be judged in the same way as an ordinary person would: I think he has possibly got some severe psychological and self-esteem problems that would make him go to such length’s in seeking approval and belonging at the heart of a vile government. Its the classic cry for attention of someone on the margins of their own society seeking to fit in somewhere.

By: Horace Jeffery Hodges

Horace Jeffery Hodges — Mon, 31 May 2010 23:31:38 +0000

Live, from New York, it’s Saturday Night!

Jeffery Hodges

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By: Joshua Stanton

Joshua Stanton — Mon, 31 May 2010 01:31:11 +0000

And both generalissimos are still dead.

By: Alec

Alec — Sun, 30 May 2010 22:46:02 +0000

I am shocked… I mean *shocked*… that the scion of a blue-blood Spanish aristocratic family which, as soon as their previous patron fell out of fashion after his death 40 years ago, should latch onto another fascistic figurehead.

By: Lkh

Lkh — Sun, 30 May 2010 12:49:56 +0000

This guy is a plain moron. I just don’t understand, why someone from Spain needs all this cr@p?

By: Ernst

Ernst — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 22:47:03 +0000

Well, these interviews are really a good exercise in understanding why people have deceptive minds without realizing it.

Through anecdotal evidence (linked through OFK to KFA travelogue(s)) we know that Cao is actually a business man too : he actually does mark up his ‘sucker’ trips to NK. He takes 1400 euro of you upon arrival in Hotel x in Pyongyang, but his actual purchase price to the Norks is perhaps a 1000. Then he also sellls 250 euro Beijing – Pyongyang plane tickets for 350 euro. Multiply this by an average of 20-25 hopeless souls per trip and you can see it’s a money spinner.

So, he is doing very well out of this exercise and since he doesn’t pay a hood himself whilst in Pyongyang, the 12 grand profit per trip will sustain his big gut either in Spain or in Thailand.

Initially people might think that Cao is just another deluded fool like, say, Bobbie Park, but ultimately he’s probably just an opportunist – having found a niche.

By: Billy

Billy — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 17:18:25 +0000

he reminds me of a guy that is a complete nerd and loser in his real life, and latched onto this DPRK thing because he knew nobody else would be doing it, therefore making him unique and somewhat respectable, in his mind. what a loser.

By: a listener

a listener — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 08:56:52 +0000

Senor Comrade Cao still has not explained why the Slytherins are the only ones to survive in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. He has only explained his heartfelt wish that people in the Emrald City of Pyongyang survive as much as the country people do. He is only right in one respect when it comes to the DPRK famine. Those in the cities died first, only if they lived outside the capital. Those in the country died second if not near Hamhung. The Oranges and Apples in North Korea taste soo sweet for a reason, and it is not because of geography.

By: Bryan Cheron

Bryan Cheron — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 06:06:09 +0000

Enjoying this series even more than the rest of the blog (which is saying alot; upon recently discovering it, I’ve become infatuated). Looking forward to part 4!