Nobel Peace Prize laureates are descending on the fine city of Gwangju to mark the June 2000 intra-Korean summit:
During the second session, Kenya’s 2004 Nobel Peace laureate Wangari Muta Maathai, and others, will highlight cases in Asia where human rights are still oppressed and democracy is underdeveloped. They will offer their wisdom and vision to promote democracy in Asia.
I hope for Prof. Maathai’s sake that in highlighting cases of human rights abuses in Asia she sticks to Burma and U.S. allies like Israel, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, because if she thinks she can go to Gwangju with the North Koreans in town for the big June 15 anniversary shindig and suggest that Pyongyang is anything but a misunderstood victim of U.S. imperialism, she’s in for a very rude awakening.
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I can see it now: the invited Norks beating up on a Kenyan human rights activist and South Korean police looking on in apathy. Where’s my video camera?
One more thing: I checked the Times article and if I see the phrase “Speak Truth to Power” one more time I’ll chunder.
I saw some of the fotage of the festivities in Gwangju on TV this evening and I am beginning to think that Baduk might be right about them. It is enemy territory.