It looks like what few members left of the Korean political party, the Democratic Labor Party that are not busy being indicted as spies for North Korea are now busy cozying up to Venezuela’s newly empowered dictator, Hugo Chavez.  Antti has the scoop:

Taking a look at the Korean Democratic Labor Party’s (DLP) homepage, there’s a photo of the Venezuelan president Chavez. Not surprised about that, as there haven’t been leaders whom the far left can regard as revolutionaries for some time. It turns out that in order to initiate exchange with the Venezuelan ruling party, DLP has sent a negotiation and a study group to the country, invited and paid (except for plane tickets) by the Venezuelan government. A writer of the DLP periodical Chinbo Chôngch’i (Progressive Politics) is accompanying the visiting group, and he will write a series for the magazine with the title "Going to the land of revolution, Venezuela." Not that I have much expectations for DLP anyway any more, but this is just one step down the slope.

I’m not surprised by this because as much as leftists claim that President Bush is dictator, they find it really easy to cozy up to a real dictator like Hugo Chavez.  I wonder what Chavez is going to teach them?  How to supply anti-government guerillas with money and weapons to over throw a democratically elected government, like what Chavez is dong with the FARC in Columbia?  Or will Chavez give them some pointers on how to rule by decree?

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