I am pondering what to do if Lee and Ling get out (which I sure wouldn't count on, even if Ling DID read to her sister from a script supplied by Pyongyang officials). I think, oh yay, I don't have to eat gruel, yay yay! And then all that cheering resounds emptily in my head because ok, two American prisoners hypothetically get out of hell, but what about the thousands upon thousands of inmates remaining and starving in the prisons? Heck, what about the millions and millions of ordinary, non “criminal” citizens of North Korea who are starving while the leaders get whatever they want? Don't we still have a lot to protest, even if the US gets its two citizens back?
What would Lee and Ling say? They would say, you stopped because WE are free? What about all the people remaining in that hellhole?
And then I wonder, what would all those other people feel like? They'd know in their guts that they just don't matter as much as two American women. That Americans view them as disposable, just as their own leadership does.
Well. I can't see any way around it. Amnesty or no amnesty, I will have to go hungry for a month.
See http://www.lauraandeuna.com/ or http://www.kcra.com/news/19993756/detail.html for updates on the journalists.
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