Trailing Spouse - Burma edition

We thought Blaine might leave for Bangkok this weekend to cover the Burma aftermath.

(Burma, Southeast Asia and Australia are part of the empire I call Greater Blainia.)

So I'm faced with an unexpected moral dilemma: If the Burmese govt maintains its brutal crackdown, repressing millions of people, Blaine will likely not spend as much time covering that story. If Burma opens up, freeing millions of people, Blaine will probably spend weeks and/or months there - a definite challenge for us in Tokyo.

For now, we think he'll be in Tokyo for a few weeks, at least, now that the Korea negotiations are done for now.

Am I worried that Blaine could go to Burma and risk arrest or worse? A Japanese photographer was shot to death there last week.

Blaine probably couldn't get a visa from the current govt. He went there in 2000 and wrote a series of A1 stories for The New York Times, and I'm guessing that someone in the former SLORC knows how to use Google.