":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.    

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