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Plucking North Koreans from the water!

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Ira Stoll writes at The New York Sun,

What, though, about a different approach — instead of starving the North Koreans or nuking them, how about rescuing them by helping them escape?

The death blow to the Soviet Union, after all, came not with President Carter’s grain embargo or even with NATO’s deployment of Pershing II or Lance missiles in Western Europe, but with the opening of the borders of East Germany in November of 1989. Once the population was allowed to leave, the entire Soviet Communist empire came crashing down.

…South Korea, for its part, is wary of the costs of unification and of integrating a much poorer neighbor. (A little-known fact is that North Korea and Russia also share a short border; Vladimir Putin doesn’t seem to want the refugees, either.) That leaves America, traditionally the last resort of the world’s huddled masses.

When we’ve absorbed refugees from communism in the past, it’s generally worked out pretty well. Sergey Brin, who came from the Soviet Union, co-founded Google. Alex Kozinski, who came from Romania, wound up as chief judge on the U.S Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Ayn Rand, who also came from the Soviet Union, became a bestselling author. The parents of Senators Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz fled Communist Cuba.

Just because fleeing overland to China or South Korea might be difficult doesn’t mean that escape is impossible. North Korea has long stretches of coastline along both the Yellow and Japan seas. As the examples of both the Mariel Boatlift and the Vietnamese Boat people show, the sea can be a fine escape route to freedom. There are precedents for this dating all the way back to the biblical Exodus, in which the children of Israel escaped Egypt via the Red Sea.

America is the world’s great naval power. Our ships can be used to pluck North Koreans from the water to safety or to provide cover to them as they leave the coast, just as readily as they can be used to bomb Pyongyang back to the stone age. (I believe it was Claudia Rosett who first planted this idea with me, though I mention this only so that I don’t fail to give her the appropriate credit, not so that she gets any blame for any flaws in my own articulation of it.)

Such a heroic effort would probably topple the North Korean dictatorship. It would certainly bring to America plenty of human talent intimately familiar with the evils of Communism. It would be a great achievement, if only the anti-immigrant crowd in Washington can get over their nativist anxieties for long enough to allow it to happen.

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