SOON, THEY”LL BE MORE LIBERAL
SOON, THEY”LL BE MORE LIBERAL THAN…. BELARUS: This NYT piece suggests exactly how North Korea is strictly limiting it’s “opening” to the rest of the world. The article is funny/depressing, but then there’s this bizarre graf: “The evident discipline and presumed political reliability of the North Korean rooters is not the only reason to suspect ...
SOON, THEY"LL BE MORE LIBERAL THAN.... BELARUS: This NYT piece suggests exactly how North Korea is strictly limiting it's "opening" to the rest of the world. The article is funny/depressing, but then there's this bizarre graf: "The evident discipline and presumed political reliability of the North Korean rooters is not the only reason to suspect they have been specially chosen for what would have been an unimaginable foray south even a year ago. Anything more than a quick glance — and wherever they have appeared here, crowds have been gawking — reveals them to be as esthetically pleasing and perfectly matched as a strand of pearls." Somehow I don't think the New York Times would have used that language for, say, a Unificationist mass wedding.
SOON, THEY”LL BE MORE LIBERAL THAN…. BELARUS: This NYT piece suggests exactly how North Korea is strictly limiting it’s “opening” to the rest of the world. The article is funny/depressing, but then there’s this bizarre graf: “The evident discipline and presumed political reliability of the North Korean rooters is not the only reason to suspect they have been specially chosen for what would have been an unimaginable foray south even a year ago. Anything more than a quick glance — and wherever they have appeared here, crowds have been gawking — reveals them to be as esthetically pleasing and perfectly matched as a strand of pearls.” Somehow I don’t think the New York Times would have used that language for, say, a Unificationist mass wedding.
Daniel W. Drezner is a professor of international politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and co-host of the Space the Nation podcast. Twitter: @dandrezner
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