Monday, April 12, 2010

Dam North Korea

A curious report from The Korea Times today has me stirring from my slumber.

Dams under construction in that damned land seem to be positioned, possibly, for more than merely meeting some of the energy needs of the monolithic Juche party machine's further exploits upon its people.

As the dams are being built in proximity to the notorious prison camps (holding some 200,000 plus"guests") is not the following scenario, spoken out loud by Professor Hong Seong-phil of Yonsei University in Seoul, worth considering?
"According to intelligence and witness accounts from North Korean defectors, the North may blow up the dams to kill the inmates in the event of a sudden change there."
The unthinkable apparently happens behind closed doors, everyday, particularly in sunny North Korea.

A quaint rhyme (with poetic license, granted) from distant Sunday school memories recurs as the vision of all this appears before me:

"Here is the gulag . . .. here are the people
Open the doors . . . and out come the people!" 

~either the people rush out or a flood rushes in . . . washing away the sins

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