Ask A Korean has a great post up right now by a former North Korean defector about how the North Koreans will use Clinton’s visit and the release of the journalists to their own advantage. Go read it.
I particularly agree with this:
Already the journalists are saying things like there were rocks in the rice given in North Korea, or how they missed fresh fruit and vegetables. I am totally blown away. It is a country that does not even really have refrigerators; such a complaint is more fit for tourists. Were they expecting to be treated like heads of states? Meanwhile, North Korean people are having a hard time eating rice to begin with.
So true, so true.
