working

POPULAR TAGS

 Outside the Beltway 

Let My People Go

Seen on a beat up Hyundai Sonata driving in to DC this morning: A bumper sticker reading, “Let My People Go! Free North Korean Refugees in China Before the Beijing Olympics.”

Let My People Go!  Free North Korean Refugees in China Before the Beijing Olympics

That’s rather wordy for a bumper sticker, frankly.

About the Author: James Joyner is the publisher of Outside the Beltway and the managing editor of the Atlantic Council. He's a former Army officer, Desert Storm vet, and college professor with a PhD in political science from The University of Alabama. He lives just outside the Beltway in Alexandria, Virginia with his wife and infant daughter.

Follow James on FriendFeed | Twitter | Digg
 
 
Related Stories:
 
Recent Stories:
| Subscribe to RSS Feed | Permalink | Send TrackBack
 
Comments
 

Free them to do what and go where? I suspect that a better bumper sticker would be encouraging North Korea to release North Korean refugees.

Posted by Dave Schuler | May 20, 2008 | 10:22 am | Permalink
 

If you think it's long in English, I wonder what Korean would look like.

Posted by Bithead | May 20, 2008 | 10:55 am | Permalink
 

Tens of thousands of North Koreans hide in China in hopes of ultimately reaching the US or South Korea.

Since the Chinese consider them economic migrants, refugees caught are sent back to North Korea where they face imprisonment and/or death.

So China is ground zero for this issue.

Since 2004, only around 50 North Koreans have made it to the US. The problem is that the State Department is taking its sweet time processing them. That's probably why it's written in English.

As a designer though, I too would not want to read this while driving nor do I want to spend too much time staring at another person's car.

Posted by S.K. | May 20, 2008 | 11:43 am | Permalink
 

I wish I'd seen this offer before I paid for my North Korean Refugees.

Posted by Brian J. | May 20, 2008 | 04:23 pm | Permalink
 

RSS feed for these comments.

 
Post a Comment

(required)

(required)


Please use the "LINK" button atop the comment box or otherwise insert HTML tags around links to other pages rather than just pasting in a URL. Doing the latter reformats the page if the URL is long, since it will not break.

 
Search OTB
Lijit Logo
OTB RSS Subscribers via FeedBurner

For Advertising Info, write
otb@blogads.com

FOLLOW US

ADVERTISERS

OTB MEDIA

MANzine logo

OTB Gone Hollywood

OTB Sports

Allie is Wired

ATLANTIC COUNCIL

New Atlanticist Atlantic Council Blog



Visitors Since Feb. 4, 2003

All original content copyright 2003-2009 by OTB Media. All rights reserved.