6/23/2004 07:09:05 AM|||Nathan Moore|||

Vaclav Havel has a piece in the Washington Post this morning. Any time this man speaks the free world ought to listen. Havel is one of the most eloquent and enlightened products of the former Eastern Bloc. His focus in the essay today is North Korea and the collective negligence of the world community. We should take heed. One of his observations

Shockingly, the U.N. Commission on Human Rights has criticized the North Korean regime for its gross violations of human rights only twice since the commission was founded. Less shocking, but also disturbing, is the fact that the North Korean government has yet to implement any of the commission's recommendations.

Of course, this is the same commission that has enjoyed the company of Sudan, Libya and Syria, among others, from an organization that sees problems and cowardly ignores the hard solutions.

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