Posted on 06/12/2018 8:43:32 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
It was little more than a year ago that South Korean police descended on the home of Lee Jin-young in Seoul, arrested him and placed him in solitary confinement. Lee is a long-time activist who had already been jailed in the 1980s for promoting democracy, but this time he was thrown in prison for different reasons. His so-called crime was running Labor Books, an online library of information on North Korea. Lee was charged with spreading literature that benefitted the enemy and could have faced years in prison until a court eventually quashed the charges against him.
Sadly, this is not a unique case in South Korea, where the looming threat of war with the North has taken a serious toll on personal freedoms.
President Donald Trumps on-again, off-again summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il currently set to go ahead June 12has dominated world headlines for months. Rights groups have called for human rights violations in North Koreawhich happen on an industrial scale through labour camps and mass executionsto remain on the table during discussions....
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Yup
When they start being concerned about Tommy Robinson I might pay attention
Today there is a dark side wherever one lives.
Good for them. I wish the US military still banned homosexuals. I couldn’t serve anymore. I spent too many years helping to prosecute them and imprison them to ever decide their disgusting behavior is acceptable in any way.
Does Cuba approve of gays?
No, for decades Cuba has confined HIV positive homos in labor camps.
Doesn’t’t matter. They have little ones.
Perhaps a bit more than mooslimb countries
Hey, at lest they’re not being thrown off buildings.
Thank you, but it was more of a rhetorical question meant to show the hypocritical irony of the left’s position on North Korea.
You may be right; the gays in the higher echelons of the Cuban government probably hide the fact, while those in muslim countries justify their attraction to young boys as part of islam.
The Left IS Hypocrisy!
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