NO SUNSHINE POLICY - Call your congress people.
A defector from North Korea who worked on their weapons programs writes
in todays Wall Street Journal Editorial Page:
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id0003585
(free registration required)
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Upon my arrival, I was debriefed by South Korea's National Intelligence
Service, and occasionally put in the hands of unsophisticated American
questioners in Seoul. Remarkably, the South Korean officials made it
clear to me that I would be in danger if I were to speak out about the
WMD programs I had worked on or the atrocities I had witnessed. It soon
became obvious that they feared my testimony because it might jeopardize
South Korea's "sunshine policy," which seeks to keep the North's
repressive regime in power in order to avoid the economic consequences
to the South were it to collapse.
Incredibly, Seoul seems unwilling to accept that propping up Kim Jong
Il's regime has had grave consequences for the world. While traveling to
the China-North Korea border last year, I met with former colleagues and
learned that the production at our old missile guidance system plant was
up to normal levels following receipt by the regime of substantial
amounts of foreign currency from the South. In 1997, when I left the
plant, the output had shriveled to 30% of the pre-Nodong One launch in
1993 due to the lack of hard currency that had limited the capacity to
pay for Japanese parts imports.
7:21:14 PM 
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