However, I've been silent about one thing for a while, something that has been bothering me. It trips me up when I read, and I hate going back and reading a simple sentence several times because the lack of this specific punctuation makes it almost incoherent. I can't take it anymore:

Start using hyphens! Here's the first example:

"However, such obvious truths about the North Korean regime still just doesn’t seem to make sense to the peace-in-our-time crowd"

Please.

If I could turn to one person and one person only for insight on North Korea, it would be him.

He is right, the North Korean regime had no choice but to allow for some of these black market elements to exist because nothing in the country worked and rebellions might just emerge as a result.

However, although they tried to stop the flow of information it has failed and attitudes in North Korea towards South Korea are no longer hostile as it used to be. Of course, the regime does not share this view.

Surprisingly, the Sunshine Policy did have an effect in playing a role in getting things, including ideas, into North Korea which helped change the opinions of many people there. We know it was a fluke because Noh Moo-hyun actually was hoping that Kim Jong-il would come around and be more reasonable. That never happened, but anti-South Korea sentiments in North Korea did manage to subside.

The fact that Kim Jong-il is massively unpopular in North Korea helped the process along.