Sunday, October 16, 2011

A Visit To The Demilitarized Zone

The Demilitarized Zone. Flickr

Freedom Confronts Tyranny: A Visit To The Demilitarized Zone -- Thomas Lifson, American Thinker

Nowhere on earth does the contrast between freedom and tyranny, and their corollary prosperity and poverty, reveal itself more vividly than on the Korean Peninsula. South Korea has boomed, producing an ultramodern high tech society whose corporate giants vie for leadership in global industry after industry, and whose popular culture is consumed all over East Asia. In the North, under the hereditary Stalinist Kim dynasty, a million or more citizens died in a famine, and widespread malnutrition has made the younger generation inches shorter than their Southern neighbors, on average, and the people have no access to foreign media or the internet.

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My Comment: I have been a regular visitor to South Korea since 1988. My experiences matches Thomas Lifson's in every way.

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