The Marmot’s Hole

NYT columnist Thomas Freidman seems to think so. He contributed a piece to Golf Digest (to which I do not subscribe, but someone at the Joongang apparently does) entitled (and I’m translating from the Korean here) “Totalitarianism cannot take over a nation of golfers.” Anyway, Friedman said the biggest threat to the North Korean regime is not the Bush administration, but golfers like Grace Park and Choe Kyeong-ju, arguing that as they become examples to young North Koreans, its totalitarian system will easily collapse.

I’d imagine this is a case of the Joongang selectively editing (it cited only two lines from the piece), because I refuse to believe that even a NYT columnist can be that clueless.

Anyway, it goes without saying that since we’re talking about Grace Park, Kevin of IA’s two — ahem — tribute posts are the places to go if Korean lesbians and wet T-shirts are your thing. Which, of course, they are.

Oh, and if, per chance, you do subscribe to Golf Digest, the April issue has a big feature on Korean golf, which might be of interest.