CAMBRIDGE, England -- Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara does not like Japanese charities sending dog biscuits and old rice to North Korea to feed its hungry people.
What have the people of North Korea done to make Ishihara prefer that they starve to death rather than eat Japanese dog biscuits and old rice? Nothing as far as I can see. What have the babies of North Korea done that so upsets the Japanese government that it will not ship the special Japanese rice that the babies' mothers there need to wean them on?
I cannot see what they have done, but the hardline stance of the Japanese is leading to a significant growth in North Korean infant mortality.