Moon Jae-In Has An Admiration for North Korea's Basic Dictatorship

But don't take my word for it:

The South Korean government’s latest move to ban anti-Pyongyang leaflet launches by civic groups following North Korea’s strong complaints has stirred up controversy over the freedom of expression.

Seoul’s Unification Ministry revealed Thursday a plan to legislate a law banning the leaflet launches, describing them as “tension-building acts,” with the presidential office Blue House vowing stern responses if the launches pose a danger to national security.

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North Korea vowed Friday to abolish an inter-Korean liaison office in the first in a series of measures in anger over anti-Pyongyang leaflets sent from South Korea, even after Seoul promised to ban such leaflet campaigns.

(Sidebar: the Western leftists' darling, Kim Yo Jong, proved to be quite the b!#ch about this. But, hey! It's empowerment and the current year and stuff!)

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Pyongyang ratcheting up threats against Seoul in the last few days, halting the inter-Korean liaison office and scrapping a military agreement, could be a prelude to military provocations, experts here said Sunday. 

Did everyone forget Megumi Yokota?

Evidently so:

Shigeru Yokota, an important activist in Japan, died at the age of 87 on Friday. Yokota was the leading figure in a scattered but influential movement advancing the cause of family members of Japanese citizens kidnapped from Japan by North Korean agents. I know that is a laborious sentence, but the North Korean habit of abducting foreign nationals on their own soil, or occasionally in some third country, is not very well known or much taught in the West. Even in Japan there are political factors making it difficult to discuss, which is why abductee-family groups had to be founded by people like Yokota in the first place.

On Nov. 15, 1977, Yokota’s 13-year-old daughter Megumi went missing after being let out of school in her seaside village. She was the very youngest of 13 Japanese youths that the North Korean government admitted, during a political summit in 2002, to having abducted. Kim Jong-Il, then the supreme leader of North Korea, chalked the abductions up to contrived “heroism and adventurism” on the part of his spy service. ...

The Yokotas were told that their daughter had committed suicide in 1994 and were given a container of ashes. DNA tests on these proved contentious and inconclusive. Shigeru Yokota believed, until the day of his death, that his daughter is still alive. But he had been left with no other choice but to act on that premise.

(Kamsahamnida)