From journalist Oliver Harvey of The Sun (via Drudge):
In a cold sweat, I was led away by the jackbooted and armed North Korean border guards to a bleak side room.
My crime was that I’d disobeyed strict orders and taken pictures of the Stalinist dictatorship’s long-suffering people and the ruthless military who keep them suppressed.
Rogue North Korea isn’t the greatest place to be detained by the arm.
The “Axis Of Evil” member, described as the “most barbaric regime on the planet”, is ruled by oddball despot Kim Jong-il, whose finger hovers over the nuclear button.
The soldiers, in large khaki peaked hats bearing the red Communist badge, took me to the almost bare white room, their heels clicking on the stone floor.
On a large wooden desk was a flickering computer screen displaying a series of forbidden pictures I had obtained after spending all day playing cat and mouse with the North Korean secret police.
No one in the room was smiling – least of all me. Legs trembling, I lowered myself on to a leather sofa and remembered The Sun’s witty headline, “How Do You Solve A Problem Like Korea?” printed when Kim tested a nuclear device in 2006.
At that moment, it didn’t seem all that funny. [Emphasis in the original.]
Good reading. And a good reminder.
Republican presidential nominee John McCain understands all too well the burden our country bears in keeping watch over a world that breeds, and even nurtures, regimes such as the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. His widely misunderstood (and sometimes intentionally skewed) comment about spending “100 years in Iraq” was—to a great extent—molded by our nation’s experience in places like post-war Germany, post-war Japan and post-war Korea.
Read Mr. Harvey’s article. Watch the short video on the Web page.
It does the world good to be reminded now and then that the world isn’t always a bright and sunny place.
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