The speech is at this CSPAN link: http://www.c-spanvideo.org/clip/4170683
I of course wholeheartedly concur with this excerpt from his speech:
… At some point, it will have a hard or soft landing, at some point those people will be free, and the question mark is how many people die to get to that point. And the more we do now, the more we do to preemptively prepare and act, the lower that number will be. Because there’s no question that it will end some way, in a big way, and it will be the issue for everyone in the region, if not the world, to deal with.
V/R
Dave
It really is that bad: A powerful speech on North Korea
Posted by Max Fisher on November 26, 2012 at 3:20 pm
It’s not easy to talk to people about North Korea. The story is so awful, and so static, what more is there to do, or even to say? This speech by Adrian Hong, a strategic consultant who also co-founded a U.S.-based NGO that assists North Korean escapees, starts with that question. His 10-minute speech, which you can view here, makes a powerful case for the moral urgency of the long-running North Korean crisis.
“One challenge I always have when I speak about North Korea is I run out of adjectives for how bad things are. And many of you that follow policy or human rights situations oftentimes get jaded with numbers,” Hong begins, speaking at an event for Melanie Kirkpatrick’s book Escape from North Korea: The Untold Story of Asia’s Underground Railroad, sitting between Kirkpatrick and Joseph Kim, a young escapee whose journey her book chronicles. “It’s very easy for us to write off bad things because we just assume these are bad things that happen ‘over there,’ and many times they don’t necessarily affect us. And the challenge with North Korea in particular is that things are so bad on such a scale and scope that it sounds fake. It sounds unfathomable, it’s impossible to really comprehend.”
(Continued at the link below)
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