Fareed Zakaria is running an article right now on CNN’s website about the interesting plight of several hundred North Korean doctors and nurses who are stranded in North Africa. Kim Jong Il sent them there to earn desperately-needed hard cash for his ailing and kleptocratic regime, working for the similarly iniquitous government of the late Muamar Gaddafi. Then Gaddafi’s people got fed up with how evil he was, overturned his government, and killed him. The Arab Spring leveled him, and left his North Korean medical staff high and dry.
And Kim Jong Il, being one of the world’s most notorious despots, doesn’t really know how to feel about all this. There is a good chance that the estimated 200 North Korean medical professionals he was renting to Gaddafi will never get to go home. They just know too much. North Koreans are among the world’s most isolated and mis-educated people. They are fed an endless diet of untruths and propaganda for their entire lives by the Kim family dynasty’s media monopoly. They are given very, very little information about the outside world. So basically, no one there knows the Arab Spring has happened. And if the Dear Leader – as the rotund Kim Jong Il is known to his starving people – let the doctors and nurses come home, they would start talking. They have been forever tainted by having breached North Korea’s hermitic seal.
Last week UNICEF also announced that over$20 million in food aid is urgently needed by North Korean civilians, who suffer from a wide range of malnutrition-related diseases. UNICEF says 88,000 kids there are about to die or be sick for the rest of their protracted lives if immediate food aid is not forthcoming.
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