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...Once the talks resume, progress can be made only if the U.S. relaxes its posture and begins to view North Korea not as a grave threat to world peace, but as what it truly is: an impoverished, paranoid, deeply misguided dictatorship. Interestingly, accepting North Korea as an established nuclear power may not be a bad idea in that it will give the country some self-respect. As for agreement on the tough issue of a nuclear inspection regime, that must await improvement in Washington-Pyongyang relations. But so long as North Korea does not precipitate a crisis by selling...
...what else can you say about democracy in Cambodia except that we are now doing a U-turn to a dictatorship?" UNG BUN ANG, spokesman for Cambodian opposition leader Sam Rainsy, who fled the country following a government ruling that would allow him to be tried for allegedly libeling Prime Minister...
...Iraqi election of a 275-member National Assembly was neither a bloodbath nor a farce: It was widely participated in and is about as legitimate an election as one can expect in a country that was, until recently, a brutal totalitarian dictatorship. The turnout, which was expected by many pessimists to come in under 30 percent, was ultimately comparable to the turnout in our most recent election. That so many of these recently suppressed citizens flocked to the polls with such enthusiasm is a powerful reminder of the value of the elective franchise...
...produced by dissidents in the North. Following some jerky shots of a market, a high school and a factory, the camera pans across a poster that declares: "Down with Kim Jong Il!" in Korean characters scrawled in red ink. "People, let's all rise up and drive out the dictatorship!" The video ends with a shot of anti-Kim graffiti scrawled over an official portrait of North Korea's Dear Leader. A voice off-camera urges the U.S. and other countries to "help our movement to overthrow Kim Jong Il's authoritarian regime...
...gainsay such sentiments as "America will not pretend that jailed dissidents prefer their chains or that women welcome humiliation and servitude ..." And so Bush's critics have an uphill struggle. They risk sounding pinched, curmudgeonly. It is impossible to dispute the superiority of freedom over tyranny, of democracy over dictatorship...