Talk:Liberty in North Korea
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LiNK looks just as useful as any other Liberal garbage. What could they possibly do to help the situation in North Korea. If anything, they should focus their energies on calling out for the end of the American Military from the Korean peninsula. We do not need foreigners in the peninsula, let alone the power that partitioned us from the first place.
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LiNK came into being because of seeming apathy by the South Korean government and people for gross human rights violations committed by the North. Drawing attention to the issue and forcing the South to face them is an important first step.
Your comments with regards to the American military are irrelavent. The complete withdrawal of the United States from the Korean penninsula isn't going to magically make these human rights abuses disappear. Koreantoast 23:59, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
You say drawing attention to the issue will force the hand of the South Korean government? How would a group such as LiNK formed primarily of Korean-Americans force or even convince a sovereign nation? Even the indigenous groups in South Korea have not been successful. The relevance is in that the withdrawal of the American military will be the first step in reconciliation with the North. The Americans have an interest in a divided Korea. The North Koreans have stated already that there would be no deals with an armed American force on the peninsula. It isn't South Korea that is preventing a solution, it is the American presence. No solution will make these human rights abuses "magically" disappear, but having the Americans withdraw from the peninsula sure would "help out". No nation deserves to be under the thumb of another nation's. Reunification is not even in sight, and yet you suggest an organization composed with a majority of foreign nationals would do anything to stop these human rights abuses?-Gyopo
