- Secretary of State Powell is apparently toying with the idea of a multilateral security pact with North Korea. No word on what such a plan might look like, but the North Koreans have already begun denouncing it. Good luck.
- This piece in the WaPo concerning curriculum changes in ethnic-Korean schools in Japan suggests that Chosen Soren - the pro-Pyongyang General Association of Korean Residents in Japan - might actually be starting to get a fuckin’ clue. A snippet:
“We can no longer look at the system in North Korea as the model to teach our children,” said Pak Hyang Gu, 49, a Korean language professor at a Japanese university whose two children attend North Korean schools in western Tokyo. “We can see now that North Korea is not what we thought it was. It is not a workers’ paradise. We have no wish to teach our children something that is not true.”
Don’t get too excited - reality appears to be dawning very slowly in this case. And crap like this annoys me:
But “the schools are the only way our children will learn about the atrocities committed by the Japanese against our people,” Kim said. “They would never get that in Japanese schools.”
Fuck the atrocities committed by the Japanese - those ended in 1945. How about learning about the atrocities being committed NOW by Kim Jong-il and the KWP leadership?
