1 If public support for squashing NK is to be marshalled with hip-hop, you'll have to excuse me if I don't show up for the rallies. Frankly though, I think it would be best to pay South Korea and China to handle it. They're the ones with a serious practical interest in kicking over Kim's loony shack, and they could do it with great ease. Besides, the Koreans generally are extremely xenophobic under any regime, and if they were "liberated" by any Western power, they'd throw a guerilla war to make the occupation of Iraq look like a trip to Brokeback Mountain. Best of all, neither China nor South Korea are saddled with a Western nerfball penal system, so if they move in, the parties responsible for NK's present state will be awarded not a cushy cell in The Hague but a bullet in the base of the skull and an unmarked grave.

2 North Korea is still in the dark ages while South Korea is modernizing that what you get under a socialists goverment that is so favored by the UN and hollywood

3 Is it just me? I can't see the videos.

4 First off, Rage Against The Machine is not hip-hop. I'm not a fan of the band, but I must defend the style of this presentation. The organization behind this video, LiNK, just happens to consists of mostly college students. Some people may be turned off by their taste in music, but a lot of young adults are attracted to this image of LiNK, which is hip, cool, and sexy. As a result, LiNK can reach and educate a group of people about North Korean Human Right who otherwise do not give a damn. If that's what it takes to educate people, so be it. And no, they do not advocate squashing NK at all.

5 extremely well put kyochan, if i may say so myself. Personally, I find that the music helps heighten the effect that LiNK is trying to convey. And also, we can't "pay" China or South Korea to handle the situation when they're so reluctant to do it. Regardless of whether anyone has serious practical interest or not, somebody's got to help end this madness.