Dissent

New video footage out of North Korea suggests that the situation in North Korea has become so bad that people are risking their lives to criticize Kim Jong Il:

The 33-minute tape has created a sensation in Japan and South Korea, where it has aired repeatedly. South Korean human rights advocates say it is the first evidence of a nascent dissident movement inside North Korea.

I hope to hear about more stuff like this. Let's hope it is indicative of a broad-based movement in the country.

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Update: Just noticed this 'graf; wonder if it means that -- rather than imposing an embargo -- we should try to flood the place with Western goods:

Park said he was eager to oblige. Even though he was a member of the ruling Korean Workers' Party, and relatively privileged, he said he was disenchanted. "I saw that everybody was starving, and the state wasn't doing anything but building mausoleums to Kim Il Sung" — the late founder of North Korea and father of Kim Jong Il — "and villas for Kim Jong Il."

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Moreover, Park had watched many of the DVDs he was distributing, and from his glimpses of life abroad, at least as depicted by Hollywood, he knew that North Korea badly lagged.