November 25, 2008

Surprise: Communists are ruthless liars

This opinion piece is not about Cuba but it could be. Why should it surprise anyone to learn that commies would rather have people starve to death than allow the genie of capitalism (and free thought that comes with it) out of the bottle?

The Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on Monday announced that from December 1 it would restrict movement across the border with South Korea, suspend an historic railway and "selectively expel" South Koreans based at two joint projects in the North, the Kaesong Industrial Estate and the Mount Kumgang tourist resort. This followed South Korea's "policy of confrontation", KCNA said...

The controversial park project is to be closed by North Korea, that is, by the people who benefit most from its activities to the tune of tens of millions of dollars a year...

Trouble has been brewing since mid-October, when North Korea said the South Korean government should stop the activities of South Korean non-governmental organizations (NGOs) which were sending air balloons with leaflets and hard currency to North Korea.

They made it clear that they would retaliate by closing down Kaesong. Pyongyang says the activities of the NGOs are in a breach of a 2002 agreement which explicitly prohibits both Korean governments from waging propaganda battles against one another...

The sending of leaflets by balloons, a standard practice before 2002, was stopped as well.

However, NGOs took over where the government stopped.

Imagine democratic activists being democratic activists? North Korea simply can't tolerate that. The author of the piece seems to thing that the leaflets are pretext and it's the people-to-people exchanges that North Korea wants to stop because of their "corrupting influence."

Perhaps but regardless of the reasons for it them, the conditions set forth by the North Korean regime and their subsequent actions are exactly the kind we can expect of Castro, Inc. if sanctions on Cuba are relaxed.

We've seen the Castro regime make minor reforms in desperate moments only to repeal them later.

Why would anyone think that these old school commies will allow the trojan horse of capitalism into their fiefdoms. If they really wanted the "Chinese model" they would have implemented it by now. That they haven't speaks volumes.

Posted by Henry Louis Gomez at November 25, 2008 07:56 AM

Comments

I have already e-mailed Obama that I am willing to promote people-to-people contacts with the North Koreans to bring about democracy to that country. I have been tirelessly working toward the same goal with Cuba for the last three decades. Just read my award-winning book "Not So Secret Missions" to comprehend how successful I have been. I told Obama that we should recycle to North Korea the tourists and students that will flock to Cuba without restrictions under his administration. I will create a Havana-Pyongyang Travel Agency to promote this new venture of world peace and harmony.

Posted by: Bernardo_Penes [TypeKey Profile Page] at November 25, 2008 08:29 AM


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