The following is an excerpt from OpinionJournal.com’s “Best of the Web” written by the editor, James Taranto.
Fed Up With the Norks
There’s trouble in paradise, the New York Times reports from Paju, South Korea:
Peering at North Korea in the hazy distance from the demilitarized zone, standing under an upbeat mural trumpeting improved relations between the separated countries, a visitor from South Korea struck a skeptical note.
“We sent them food, fertilizer, factories, more than we give our own poor people,” said the South Korean, Lee Soon-hwan, a 30-year-old office worker. “And all they pay us back with is this nuclear test.”
It sounds a lot like Israel’s problems with the Palestinian Arabs. And as we all know, the solution to that problem is to give the Palestinians a state. Obviously, then, this problem can be solved by giving the Norks a state.
Oh, wait . . .
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