Posted on 02/19/2014 12:31:52 PM PST by mojito
In the past there were excuses for those inclined to ignore or deny the horrors the Democratic People's Republic of Korea routinely visits upon its subjects. Defectors have an ax to grind, we were told. American intelligence is making up stories, and Pyongyang's foreign enemies stand to profit from these tales.
There is nowhere for North Korea's apologists to hide now. The 200,000-word, nearly 400-page report released Monday by the "commission of inquiry" for the United Nations Human Rights Council, led by the Australian jurist Michael Kirby, in effect presents the world with the black book on North Korean communism.
The report is a careful but shocking document, the result of a year-long investigation, based on public hearings in Seoul, Tokyo, London and Washington, public testimony from more than 80 witnesses and an additional 240 private interviews. Much of the material is based on firsthand testimony of escapees from this hell on Earth.
"The gravity, scale and nature of these violations . . . does not have any parallel in the contemporary world," the report says. It charges the North Korean government with "crimes against humanity" and urges international action.
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All the humanitarian aid ( food, etc) we’ve given to NK for decades has allowed the regime to survive, and kill millions..
NK must be reeling from this strongly worded letter. Although I doubt it.
Privately, they're laughing.
The problem is that the NK would likely unleash an attack on Seoul that could kill hundreds of thousands..<PP
we’d have to identify, and target, the top 10,000 or so leaders..party and military, and take them out at the start..
Even the people of North Korea can only stand so much. Watch for a rouge Army Officer close to Kim pull out a pistol and blow his brains out one of these days. It will happen when least expected, just like the fall of Ceausescu and the Berlin Wall. Get ready South Korea.
It should be known as “The DemocRATs Republic of Korea”.
Act against North Korea? No money in it. Easier to just p*ss on Israel some more to make the Oil Nazis happy.
I forgot what I was gonna say.... sorry
North Korea has always been at the beck and call of China. Nothing has changed; probably nothing ever will.
Well we did send them Dennis Rodman who pooped and peed up a hotel. We could threaten to send him back.
The lowest groups are branded as "hostile" classes ("complex" classes, in more recent security-system taxonomy). These unfortunates—who may bear such hereditary curses as relatives in South Korea or ancestors who were landlords, or Christians—are held in permanent suspicion as would-be "enemies of the people," a treasonous condition in which one forfeits all humanity."
Well, sounds like something a pseudo-American president and his political party are trying to implement in the USA.
Just tell Obummer that the DPRK says unkind thinks about homosexuality; that seems to be the only thing that really gets his attention.
thinks = things.
Not once does he mention the name of the current ruler, Kim Jong-un, who has been in power more than 2 years.
Since Lil’ Kim has nuclear weapons, drones, missiles, and 40,000 artillery pieces aimed at Seoul, no one is going to do a thing.
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