Let His People Go

Deb and I were discussing the North Korean refugee problem the other day.  I see Glenn links to this article about the problem and what China is doing in regard to the possibility of a flood.

What I had said, perhaps a bit too expansively, is that the United States could help defuse this by making it policy that if someone manages to get out of North Korea, we will take them.

The problem with that is it could be way too many.  Which means that the world could defuse it by making it a policy of very many countries.

I figure many who escape, even if it’s under an “open the floodgates” policy, will be among the more ambitious types and could do well.

However, we’re not talking about Vietnamese refugees here.  North Korea is so closed and so backward that they have an extraordinary amount of learning about the modern world to do.  Still… It could give a lot of people lives like nothing they could have imagined while making China even more cooperative and defusing Kim’s biggest weapon.  It also head-starts the nearly inevitable future unification by creating a pool of potential returnees versed in the real world.

Or, as I joked, Mexico could take them, to do all the jobs that Mexicans don’t want to do.  But Deb noted they’d be too dark for Mexico’s pale power oligarchy to accept.

Jokes aside, “the refugee problem” shouldn’t be such a tough box to break out of.  Compare the cost of integrating downtrodden people with two hands and one mouth to the other possibilities doing so could help thwart or mute.

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