{"id":1300,"date":"2008-06-27T18:32:22","date_gmt":"2008-06-27T16:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/general\/north-korea-when-medication-plus-therapy-works-better-than-medication-alone.html"},"modified":"2008-06-27T18:32:22","modified_gmt":"2008-06-27T16:32:22","slug":"north-korea-when-medication-plus-therapy-works-better-than-medication-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=1300","title":{"rendered":"North Korea:  when medication plus therapy works better than medication alone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"zemanta-img\" style=\"margin: 1em; float: right; display: block;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Image:Korean_peninsula_at_night.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/a\/a3\/Korean_peninsula_at_night.jpg\/202px-Korean_peninsula_at_night.jpg\" alt=\"Satellite picture displaying the Korean peninsula at night.\" style=\"border: medium none ; display: block;\"\/><\/a><span class=\"zemanta-img-attribution\" style=\"margin: 1em 0pt 0pt; display: block;\">Image via <a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Image:Korean_peninsula_at_night.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/span><\/span>My readers know that I believe that the Bush Administration record on world affairs is pretty bad.  Still for the sake of fairness there\u00b4s something positive to say about President Bush as he prepares to leave the White House and that is how well he and his team have <a href=\"http:\/\/afp.google.com\/article\/ALeqM5jTNcCOSi799wh2VKaI9g87CITMSg\">managed North Korea<\/a>.  And nothing more dramatic than today\u00b4s footage showing North Korea\u00b4s nuclear reactor in which its atomic weapons were made <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/asia\">being blown up<\/a>.  It is clear that military power supported by diplomacy as in the case of North Korea works much better than military power alone as it was the case in Iraq.  It seems that medication plus therapy is a better treatment for brutal dictators than&#8230;lobotomy.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\" class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" href=\"http:\/\/reblog.zemanta.com\/zemified\/72cdf840-80ee-4b5e-a409-927b83e4c8eb\/\" title=\"Zemified by Zemanta\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: medium none ; float: right;\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/reblog_a.png?x-id=72cdf840-80ee-4b5e-a409-927b83e4c8eb\" alt=\"Zemanta Pixie\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<div id=\"mainphotoarea\"><\/div><div class=\"theme-buttons\"><div class=\"fb-like\" data-href=\"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=1300\" data-send=\"false\" data-layout=\"box_count\" data-width=\"71\" data-show-faces=\"false\" data-font=\"arial\" data-locale=\"en_US\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image via WikipediaMy readers know that I believe that the Bush Administration record on world affairs is pretty bad. Still for the sake of fairness there\u00b4s something positive to say about President Bush as he prepares to leave the White House and that is how well he and his team have managed North Korea. And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 5.0.3 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"max-image-preview:large\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Martin Varsavsky\"\/>\n\t<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=1300\" \/>\n\t\t<meta name=\"generator\" content=\"All in One SEO (AIOSEO) 5.0.3\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Martin Varsavsky in English\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"North Korea: when medication plus therapy works better than 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