Hi being the editor who removed the links you won t be surprised if I tell you that 1 In my opinion none of the authors of the blogs are authorities on the subject of North Korea they are probably very qualified observers specialists commentators even experts but are not authorities on the subject I think Christopher R Hill or Kim Jong Il would be authorities A debate started but seems to be dying at Wikipedia talk EL to better define recognized authority In the interest of the encyclopedia we have to limit links in articles to very selected materials that s not my opinion that s policy I am therefore in favor of a strict definition of recognized authority 2 On the matter of the purpose of the blogs they are critics of the regime I must say that no sane individual can support the regime I am not in any way supporting them I want to make that very clear The government of North Korea may be in this matter an exception it is probably the less popular regime in the world thus some may argue there is room for such critics in the article ELs the US or France for example have many critics including lots of blogs written by very qualified people but I do not think anyone would endorse their inclusions in those countries respective articles Rather than blogs for NPOV reasons since all these blogs are quite conservative I d rather see a link or two to NGOs working on human rights in North Korea areligious and apolitical ones would be preferable but that s my opinion We both tried with to settle the issue it started well but got nowhere I hope you can help