DR. VOLLERTSEN'S CRUSADE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS IN NORTH KOREA

Free North Korea blog has the latest on Dr. Norbert Vollertsen, author of Diary of a Mad Place.

The JYB has chronicled Vollertsen's work here and here. Once considered a friend by the North Korean regime for his medical work there, today he is a pariah to governments on both sides of the DMZ.

It's especially interesting to note that though Vollertsen considers himself a liberal, he calls the Sunshine Policy a "criminal act" (which it was) and sounds very much like a hard-line conservative on North Korea, as well as South Korea's collaboration with the North.

I guess you could call him an "old liberal." New liberals don't seem to care much about human rights unless they can somehow blame the US for violations.