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MEMORANDUM
TO:
OPINION LEADERS FROM:
GARY SCHMITT SUBJECT: North Korea Yesterday, in remarks
before an audience in Missouri, President Bush reiterated his State of
the Union statement that an “axis of evil” exists in the world.
Coincidently, the New York Times today (James Brooke, “One German,
and His North Korean Conscience,” p.A4) reports on the efforts of
a German physician to bring to the world’s attention just how evil
one member of that axis -- North Korea -- is. Norbert Vollertsen, who
spent a year and half in North Korea as a doctor, witnessed truly massive
and extraordinary human rights abuses by the government, including Pyongyang
deliberately starving regions of the country in order to eliminate supposedly
disloyal citizens and then cynically using the photographs of the suffering
population to elicit more food assistance from abroad. As James Doran, of
the Senate Foreign Relations Committee professional staff, has written
in the current Weekly Standard (“Axis
of Evil, Asian Division”
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),
the only lasting solution to ending this state of affairs is to remove
Kim Jong II’s Stalinist regime from power. “Assuming and undergirding
the legitimacy of a regime so plainly illegitimate as Kim Jong II’s
is not only contrary to American values but also doomed to fail, just
as detente and arms control with the Soviet Union failed in the 1970s.”
In place of the current policy of engagement with Pyongyang, Doran recommends
that the United States and its allies adopt a series of specific policies
designed to undermine the regime. The full article follows.