Which begins with a North Korean take on the election of US President-elect Barak Obama, then morphs into a discussion of the relative merits of Western and DPRK styles of democracy. (First published in CanKor Report 312, 21 November 2008.)
Erich Heinz Weingartner: Mr. Pak, did you stay up to watch the US election results Tuesday night?
Pak Kim Li: No, I did not.
EHW: Not interested?
PKL: Unlike our sycophant compatriots in south Korea, we don’t exactly hold our breath every time there is an election in the USA. I was busy preparing for our participation in an event organized by the National Committee on American Foreign Policy in New York, not to speak of our dinner meeting with Chris Hill.
EHW: The chief US negotiator in the Six-Party Talks. But surely you agree that this election was of particular historical significance. Read the rest of this entry »
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