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The appointment of Jay Lefkowitz as the new U.S. human-rights envoy for North Korea might be dismissed as an exercise in futility.

National Review

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* The appointment of Jay Lefkowitz as the new U.S. human-rights envoy for North Korea might be dismissed as an exercise in futility. Kim Jong-Il has built a state apparatus so pathologically cruel, and so isolated from the rest of the world, that it is hard to be sanguine about the idea that North Korea's torture, brainwashing, public executions, gulags, and manmade famines will go away anytime ...

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