Posted on 05/09/2026 4:38:49 AM PDT by MtnClimber
It’s hard for Americans to fathom the horror of what goes on every day in North Korea.
President Trump has repeatedly referred to Kim Jong-un as his “friend.” I recognize that this is a bargaining technique and that it is necessary to employ deception when dealing with the likes of Kim, but I wish Trump would not do it.
Kim Jong-un is not Trump’s friend; he is not anybody’s friend. He oversees the operation of brutal concentration camps, and he has reportedly carried out hundreds of executions, most of them public and involving firing squads but some private and involving the killing of pregnant women and teenagers and using blunt instruments such as pipes and hammers. No one who represses his people to this extent is a friend to America, the greatest democracy on the planet.
Many of these executions and long-term prison sentences are meted out to what we would consider innocent victims for the “crimes” of listening to Western music or videos; practicing religion; and, at worst, attempting to escape North Korea. Not only are the ones committing these offenses punished, but their entire family and circle of friends is swept up, something depicted in gripping terms in The Aquariums of Pyongyang. Even small children, such as the young boy who carries his prized aquarium to the prison camp only to watch all his fish die, are sent to prison camps for the “crimes” of friends or family.
When public executions take place, thousands of persons, including spouses and children, are often forced to watch. In some cases, these very family members are the ones who have betrayed the victims to the regime in exchange for leniency or perks of some kind. All of this has been documented in the many books and articles written by defectors
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The ideology favored by the democRATs.
Really? He seems so nice
Yep and Elton John wrote a song about him!!!
There are only two ways to get rid of a Nero. One is assassination, and we can’t schedule a meeting with Michael (Corleone). The other is political seduction and flattery to get him to let down his guard just enough to get rid of him, and that is what Trump was trying to do in his first term.
“There are only two ways to get rid of a Nero. One is assassination, and we can’t schedule a meeting with Michael (Corleone). The other is political seduction and flattery to get him to let down his guard just enough to get rid of him, and that is what Trump was trying to do in his first term.”
I think this the most intelligent two sentences I have read concerning this matter. Spot on and compact realization of what can, and cannot be done. Trump took the best avenue to address the problem. Clinton, Obama, Biden in all of their arrogance could not.
In early 2002 the idiot George W. Bush publicly called Iraq, Iran, and North Korea an “axis of evil”. What did that statement do besides putting those nations on guard?
Trump is taking the right path here.
Yes. How are things in Texas?
Agree with the author.
He is Putin’s Friend.
So is Trump.
Cold War has been over for a long time.
Kim Jong-un’s army is fighting in Europe, as an ally in a Russian invasion of a European nation.
Take prisoners. Fatten them up and then send them home.
Show them porn flicks.
North Korea is so tightly run that I don’t think that would work there, instead of injecting a political virus into their society the NK government would merely imprison or kill anyone who came back mentally impure, and they would exam thm upon entry, NK doesn’t play around and allow the seed of anything to start or even arrive, NK is impossibly isolated and controlled.
/and, water is wet.
Wow, what a revelation!
Nonetheless, he is closer to being a friend than anyone in the Democrat party.
“Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.”
— Don “Corleone” Trump
You’re probably right. Those that volunteer to return home can be returned at the DMZ after a bus tour of Seoul. Dental implants for those missing teeth. Cameras everywhere.
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