Politics does to morality what a magnet does to a compass. It confuses its sense of direction. The best example of this can be seen in the famous picture of the big three at the Yalta Conference in 1945. Churchill and Roosevelt, two giants of democracy, sit and laugh with Stalin, the monster tyrant […]

“All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing.” Edmund Burke
Amid the depressing exhibits in the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., there is one hopeful section called “Rescuers.”
After you pass by the wall covered with the front pages of […]

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Five years after the long nightmare had ended, the 18 million people set aside a day for reflection.
The image of God had finally been restored in their souls; the image of Kim Il Sung had faded away. They had human dignity again.
After the fall, the people supported a strong but decent […]

“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
For the past four months, I have been involved with the North Korean human rights movement primarily through The Chosun Journal. Of all the things I have experienced, from meeting the truly noble to hearing about the […]