{"id":1844,"date":"2003-12-16T23:33:55","date_gmt":"2003-12-17T03:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2003\/12\/16\/kim-jong-il-blogger-in-chief\/"},"modified":"2003-12-16T23:33:55","modified_gmt":"2003-12-17T03:33:55","slug":"kim-jong-il-blogger-in-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/12\/16\/kim-jong-il-blogger-in-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"Kim Jong Il, Blogger-in-Chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a2060'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"500\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td height=\"211\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/17lett.jpg\" width=\"184\" height=\"237\" align=\"left\">Although<br \/>\n        my many Korean students unanimously disagree, in a typical fit of Know-it-all-ism<br \/>\n        the Dowbrigade firmly believes that North and South Korea<br \/>\nwill be united, a la Germany, before the end of the decade.<\/p>\n<p>Part of the reason we believe this came out at last Thursday&#8217;s Berkman<br \/>\n        Bloggers meeting when we were discussing whether any of the current sorry<br \/>\n        crop of Presidential candidates actually read a single blog (the consensus<br \/>\n        was no). The Dowbrigade observed, with typical hyperbole, that  North<br \/>\n        Korean President Kim Jong Il (whom President Bush described as an &quot;irredeemable<br \/>\n        pygmy&quot;) was more likely to be reading our blogs than any of the US pols.&nbsp; That<br \/>\n        still stands.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Times has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/12\/17\/international\/asia\/17LETT.html?ex=1386997200&amp;en=a6b6b5853782f425&amp;ei=5007&amp;partner=USERLAND\">an<br \/>\n          interesting article<\/a> on South Korea&#8217;s plans<br \/>\n        for the coming rapprochement:<\/p>\n<p>        &quot;As the prospect of a negotiated end to the nuclear crisis with North<br \/>\n        Korea inches closer, South Koreans are now thinking seriously about the<br \/>\n        implications. There is the potential, they realize, for a terrible lesson<br \/>\n      in getting what you wish for.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/12\/17\/international\/asia\/17LETT.html?ex=1386997200&amp;en=a6b6b5853782f425&amp;ei=5007&amp;partner=USERLAND\">from<br \/>\n          the New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although my many Korean students unanimously disagree, in a typical fit of Know-it-all-ism the Dowbrigade firmly believes that North and South Korea will be united, a la Germany, before the end of the decade. Part of the reason we believe &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/12\/16\/kim-jong-il-blogger-in-chief\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}