Cold war nostalgia

Jeff Jacoby takes time out of his busy schedule to revisit the glory days of movement conservatism by railing against the New York Philharmonic's visit to North Korea.
He notes (rightly) that the audience for the concert was filled with Comrade Kim's lackeys and sundry partei hacks, not much there in the way of public outreach I'd say.
On the other hand, if Comrade Kim wanted to reach out to the west then a sort of harmless cultural event might be as good a start as any. The USA reapproachment with the PRC commenced with nothing more than a visit of the US Table Tennis Team to China.
No doubt the Jeff Jacoby's of 1970 howled about this sellout to Comrade Mao and his cut-throat band of slave drivers.
Dunno if any of this means that Comrade Kim is about to see reason, given his record to date I doubt it, but then again bigger more malevolent dopes than he have come to terms with us.
Of course where was all this outrage when Pinochet was torturing college co-eds and the Argentinian Junta was executing citizens seemingly at random?
Where indeed.