I agree with former president Jimmy Carter that North Korean leaders are dedicated to preserving their regime, as he wrote in his Oct. 5 op-ed, “Time to talk to North Korea,” but I disagree that th…
I agree with former president Jimmy Carter that North Korean leaders are dedicated to preserving their regime, as he wrote in his Oct. 5 op-ed, “ Time to talk to North Korea,” but I disagree that the United States should be dedicated to the preservation of that regime.
Despite being known as the human rights president, Mr. Carter omitted how the fundamental rights of the battered and bruised North Korean people should be addressed if talks were held. Assuming that North Koreans are loyal to their leader is questionable, considering the more than 100,000 people in political prison camps, the extreme efforts of Pyongyang to bar its people from accessing outside information and the restrictions placed on leaving the country.
