Christine Ahn, Pak Chol, and the United Front Department
A week ago, I fisked a report by the NGO Korea Peace Now! about the impact of sanctions on the North Korean people, which at least some journalists covered without questioning its many factual or logical flaws. The report was calculated to absolve Pyongyang of the blame for seizing land and destroying crops the poor grow on it, for its massive diversion of resources from food to weapons, for exporting scarce food for cash, for the gross inequality Kim Jong-un...