perfidy

Over at Parapundit, there's some ideas for how you can hasten, (if only slightly) the demise of the contemptible North Korean dictatorship.

The idea centers on getting solar power radios into the hands of North Korean citizens, through a variety of means. How effective this will be, I really can't say. It is of course potentially lethal for North Korean citizens just to have a radio, but getting some truth into the hands of the oppressed can't be a completely bad idea. We know that the voice of America broadcasts and BBC shortwave were crucial lifelines for dissidents in the Soviet block. East Germans were not so cut off from their cousins in the west as the North is from the south in Korea - at least the East Germans had radios.

Hopefully, before too long, we won't have to worry about this. While many fear the cataclysm they expect will attend the demise of the Communist rulership, I have to pull out my dusty rose colored optimist shades and say that the pattern of Communist collapse is largely a peaceful one. Throughout Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union and even elsewhere, the Commies generally go quietly. The most violent example so far of a Communist regime losing power is Romania, and even that was peaceful compared to the extraordinary bloodiness of Communists taking power anywhere.