I wont be watching The Interview for a lot of reasons. First of all, I doubt seriously it will be good. Rogen and Franco are hit and miss and nothing in the trailer was particularly funny. Second, I dont feel a need to stand up to hackers (whom I doubt seriously were North Korean) for an attack on a Japanese corporation. Honestly, I am a lot more worried about Sonys influence on my life than any of the other players in this little teapot tempest. But, mostly it is because I deplore our practice - exemplified by Team America (which at least had the virtue of being hilarious) - of treating the regime of Kim Jong Un as if it were some funny little communist theme park. Oh, Kim says he got 18 holes in one in one round of gulf. Isnt that funny? How delightful.The overwhelming media narrative is one of an odd little hermit kingdom run by ridiculous little leaders. Well, I doubt if a woman whose baby was born in one of the many prison camps that imprison over 100,000 political prisoners and whose baby was subsequently fed to dogs in front of her finds him a figure of ridicule. North Korea is the most brutal, awful dictatorship left on the face of the Earth. We are talking about an entire population of people who have been miseducated, lied to and abused and who have no conception of what the modern world is like. Its one thing to have a heavily censored Internet; its another not to know the Internet even exists. North Korea had no Internet until 2010 and today they have only about 1000 IP addresses in the entire country. For comparison, the U.S. has around a billion and the area around Market Square probably has close to a thousand. People in North Korea have less control over the shape and direction of their lives than any citizenry that has ever existed. Every single person is born into prison and many of them wind up in even worse ones. In fact, if there ever were a justified invasion of a country, it would be a UN sponsored invasion of North Korea with the support of China and South Korea. It wont happen, because the governments of both those countries seem to have a foreign policy that consists solely of Let me get all the money I can out of there and please pleasepleaseplease ohgodplease dont let that shithole collapse during my time in office. South Korea maintains special economic zones where South Korean companies employ the slave labor of 54,000 North Koreans, whose wages are paid directly to the government. China extracts minerals and fishing rights and ships its pollution there. These are the North Koreans only legitimate sources of income, everything else comes from arms and drug running, counterfeiting, and other crime. As long as they arent serious about fixing the problem, it is impossible for any one else to begin. I like Seth Rogen. Someone has to be a bad guy in the movie. But, its time to start treating North Korea seriously. ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/HRC/CoIDPRK/Pages/CommissionInquiryonHRinDPRK.aspx
Posted on: Wed, 24 Dec 2014 03:34:56 +0000
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