CHOLWON, South Korea, Aug. 22 — All in all, it was a perfect day for breaking North Korea's information monopoly, and Dr. Norbert Vollertsen and his band of volunteers were determined to take advantage of it. A brisk wind from the south was driving clouds and, Dr. Vollertsen hoped, large balloons carrying transistor radios north over the barbed wire of the demilitarized zone into North Korea, a country closed off from the rest of the world.

But before the specially designed cargo balloons could be inflated with helium, South Korean police officers clambered aboard the truck and subdued Dr. Vollertsen, who is German, so roughly that he needed medical treatment.
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Want to do something about this?

Call South Korean Ambassador to the United States, Sung Chul Yang, at (202) 939-5600 and tell him how embarrassed you are for his government -- that they stoop so low as to arrest those who are helping their Northern neighbors have a taste of freedom.

Pray for Norbert & others (mostly Christians) who doubtless need some encouragement right now.