South Korean Silence
While stories like Scientist Describes Chemical Tests on Prisoners and North Korea's Use of Chemical Torture Alleged have received coverage in the international press, apart from The Chosun Ilbo, a conservative paper, there has been nothing but silence about these allegations from Korea’s other major English-language news outlets, The Dong-A Ilbo, Joong Ang Daily, The Korea Herald, Korea Times, and Yonhap News. My wife tells me the Korean-language media are also silent. I can think of two possible explanations for this:
1. The Korean media are too savvy to be duped by a right-wing conspiracy led by the “evil” George Bush to discredit their brothers in the North, or
2. It is too painful for the Korean media to admit that fellow Koreans are responsible for what may be the worst human rights violation thus far in the 21st. Century.
While stories like Scientist Describes Chemical Tests on Prisoners and North Korea's Use of Chemical Torture Alleged have received coverage in the international press, apart from The Chosun Ilbo, a conservative paper, there has been nothing but silence about these allegations from Korea’s other major English-language news outlets, The Dong-A Ilbo, Joong Ang Daily, The Korea Herald, Korea Times, and Yonhap News. My wife tells me the Korean-language media are also silent. I can think of two possible explanations for this:
1. The Korean media are too savvy to be duped by a right-wing conspiracy led by the “evil” George Bush to discredit their brothers in the North, or
2. It is too painful for the Korean media to admit that fellow Koreans are responsible for what may be the worst human rights violation thus far in the 21st. Century.
Redeemed by Our Savior, I work out my salvation with fear and trembling in Pohang, South Korea, where I live with my wife, daughter, and son and teach English at a science and technology university. Baptized a Methodist and raised a Missouri Synod Lutheran in Buffalo, NY, I spent six years as a guest of the Anglican Communion before being received by the Grace of God into the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church on the Feast of Saint Andrew, my patron, anno domini 2002.
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