Wednesday, October 23, 2002
The DPRK has announced that it will not allow the children of adbucted Japanese to visit Japan. The excuse: "because they have to go to school." If the DPRK were as desperate and eager to mend relations with the outside world as some seem to think, allowing these visits would seem to be an easy way to demonstrate the new, kinder, gentler, DPRK. Perhaps the distrust of the outside is so ingrained, so reflexive that the DPRK can't behave otherwise.
