You might recall that back in March, a submarine from Communist North Korea torpedoed a South Korean naval vessel without the slightest justification, murdering 46 South Korean sailors.
It was a cowardly, vicious attack - and one that South Korea would have been well justified in answering with military force.
For various reasons, South Korea exercised incredible restraint in not responding militarily to Communist North Korea's violence. Yet now, even despite Communist North Korea's unwillingness to accept responsibility for the torpedoing of the South Korean vessel, South Korea has repaid evil with good.
It recently sent convoys of trucks loaded with hundreds of tons of rice and flour across the border to feed the hungry North Korean people. That nation's tragic and inefficient communist system cannot produce enough food to feed its people even in agriculturally good years. But with recent major flooding, the prospects for adequate food are even worse. That prompted the South Korean people to provide the emergency food aid in spite of their grief over the loss of their sailors in the torpedo attack.
South Korea and Communist North Korea offer the world a clear picture of the success of free-market economic systems versus the disaster of government-run economies.