Posted on 10/31/2013 8:29:34 AM PDT by GeronL
WASHINGTON (AP) — Her father was tortured in detention in North Korea and died. Her elder sister went searching for food during the great famine of the 1990s, only to be trafficked to China. Her two younger brothers died of starvation, one of them a baby without milk whose life ebbed away in her arms. North Korean defector Jin Hye Jo tearfully told her family's story Wednesday to U.N. investigators during a public hearing in Washington, their latest stop in a globe-trotting effort to probe possible crimes against humanity in North Korea. The U.N. commission, led by Australian judge Michael Kirby, says evidence gathered so far points to systematic and gross human rights violations. It is empowered to seek full accountability, although bringing perpetrators to justice remains a distant prospect.
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Possible crimes.
“possible”?
They are probably legal in that country. lol. Their “Law of the Land” after all.
Sending entire families, even children, to concentration camps for the thought crime of one member, who was shot, is a “possible” crime?
Well, as you point out, it’s not a crime if it’s legal.
I don’t get what China gets from propping them up. If South Korea promised to boot the US troops, not to put its army north of the 48 and to give trade benefits for China wouldn’t that be a good inducement?
South Korea would need a lot of Chinese help and $$$ to make the north able to integrate with the South. It won’t be easy or cheap but a unified Korea is good for everyone.
China would have less to worry about militarily and would pick up a better trading partner.
A Unified Korea would not need a bigger military, would not need US troops based there (maybe a naval base in the far south for old times sake). It would become a bit poorer for a while as it rebuilt the north, but the cheap labor in the north being put to productive use would be beneficial in the longer run.
It might take a decade afterwards before the north can be fully integrated, even then it will probably seem like a different country for a while.
When you have a mad dog at the end of a leash, you tend to be very, very careful with it. NK also has nukes, and China isn’t that far away. Also, the thought of all those NK “refugees” coming across the border may have the chicoms even more nervous, as NK perfected the suicider long before the muzzies did...
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