Only in New York.*

Red Star Rising | American-Rattlesnake

To live in New York is to be surrounded by people suffering from various pathologies, many of whom you encounter on a daily basis if-like most of us-you use*public transportation. Living here also means being surrounded by Marxists of varying hues, including*Maoists,*Trotskyites, and-as the photograph above illustrates, supporters of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.

Most of the time, international supporters of the only communist hereditary dictatorship fly under the radar. Outside of the*faltering consortium*of ethnic Koreans living in Japan-whose own stability has been imperiled for*obvious reasons-there are not many people willing to support a regime which has killed enough of its subjects to rank comfortably between Pol Pot and*Mengistu Haile Mariam*in the annals of historical, third world despotism...