STRAIGHT TO THE SOURCE

Your July 21 article, “The cost of N Korea’s nukes”, was, I noticed, by the Associated Press. Why is all the information regarding North Korea invariably only from US sources? Are there no sources other than American propaganda? Perhaps you should invite Colin Powell to divulge the latest on the North Korean threat?

One would think that the Bangkok Post would have the resources and the mettle to investigate the matter independently. After all, Thailand is relatively independent in the major geopolitical disputes.

There are direct contacts between Thailand and North Korea (for example, there was a recent football match between the national teams of both countries, there are North Korean restaurants in Bangkok, etc), and North Korea is not that very far away. I am sure that the matter of North Korea (not only its weapons programme), particularly the real lives of the inhabitants of that country, is of serious interest to many, including readers of the Bangkok Post.

Przemo Kranz