Posted on 10/23/2014 2:44:57 AM PDT by Olog-hai
China says its against referring ally North Korea to the International Criminal Court over its human rights record.
The U.N. General Assemblys human rights committee is considering a resolution calling on the Security Council to take that step, citing the Norths dismal and well-documented record of sprawling political prison camps, starvation and mass executions.
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What’s been done to the North Korean people since the 1940s under the Kims has been one of the great crimes against humanity imaginable.
Reintegration is going to be almost impossible since the people themselves are so different. The Southerners are living in a first-world culture, educated and well-nourished. The Northerners are impoverished, living in a gulag-state little better (and with less freedom) than those in the stone age, and are so malnourished, that has likely caused mental deficiencies and stymied their physical growth and stature. Just a horrible situation.
Yes it has. The huge numbers of people murdered by their own governments boggles the mind, and If you think that is bad, wait till the end times of the book of Revelation. That will be a period of slaughter that no one can begin to comprehend. God will get His revenge on them, and it won't be pretty.
To cut through the beeswax, just refer to NK as the “kingdom” of North Korea. Fat boy is far closer to the tyrannical princes and kings of old, a “brutalitarian” who rules by force of arms, than to any other form of government.
This is also a sneer at the “People’s Republic of China”, whose communists should be justifiably ashamed of supporting a feudal system of government, by their own philosophy.
They are an absolute monarchy with the Kim dynasty as god-kings, albeit nominally atheistic and with sham elections.
The PRC are themselves a sort of feudalistic oligarchy.
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