Big Brother is watching

An amazing photo of a DPR Korean soldier peering through to see US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, while on a visit last week to Panmunjom on the DMZ dividing Korea. Clinton annouced even tougher sanctions on DPR Korea as punishment for the supposed Cheonan attack, an incident the UN even said in its ratified statement that Pyongyang was not responsible for. While at the DMZ, Clinton looked through binoculars into the North giving a sense that entry into the reclusive country was forbidding, despite the fact that her husband had been there last year. The hope now, like that with other unsuccessful blockades elsewhere (Cuba in particular) is that by strangling the country economically will lead to further hardship and an eventual popular uprising to usher in capitalism. However, in practice such sanctions only give the authorities further opportunity to easily blame all economic failings on the hated American imperialists and their blockade. The only people who suffer are the poor and powerless, the people the USA ostensibly want to help.