NKorea's 'lucky' triplets seized - ALL triplets in North Korea are being forcibly removed

heraldsun.news.com ^ | 032903

[InvisibleChurch]

ALL triplets in North Korea are being forcibly removed from parents after their birth and dumped in bleak orphanages.

The policy is carried out on the orders of Stalinist dictator Kim Jong-il, who has an irrational belief that a triplet could one day topple his regime.

The number three is thought to be auspicious in North Korea and triplets are revered. It is believed they are likely to rise to positions of power, which accounts for Kim's insistence that they are all raised in state-run orphanages, where their development can be controlled.

Officially, the policy was introduced to help poverty-stricken parents in a country where hunger is widespread.

But aid agencies and diplomats have dismissed this: triplets born to high-ranking officials are also seized.

"There is no doubt that the policy is compulsory and universal," a veteran Western diplomat told London's Daily Telegraph newspaper.

"It may be officially atheistic and Stalinist, but North Korea essentially operates a state religion infused with superstition, astrology and a personality cult that glorifies Kim as a unique individual.

"You don't take any chances with rivals in that system," the diplomat said.

The children are housed in "triplet rooms", which visitors describe as bare but clean. They are said to receive good foreign-aid food, but none of the love and affection bestowed on most children.

A member of a foreign delegation that visited one such orphanage said they were greeted with a vision of desperate isolation and sadness.

The triplets were placed together in one room, with many of them rocking backwards and forwards in an almost trance-like state.

"Our people were stunned into silence," the delegate told the Telegraph.

A pediatrician who studied evidence from the visit diagnosed severe emotional trauma.

Delegates reported a high standard of care in the triplet rooms.

"But none of those infants knows what affection is," a delegate said. "Our staff tried to cuddle them for a few minutes, but then, of course, we had to leave."

The seizure of triplets is an extension of a policy designed to ensure absolute loyalty to Kim.

The children of all high-ranking government officials are taken from their parents at the age of two and transferred to state-controlled schools where family bonds are broken and devotion to Kim is instilled.

More than 300 sets of triplets are born in North Korea every year and their well-being has raised worries among aid agencies, despite official claims the policy represents an act of kindness.

In a statement to the UN Human Rights Commission in Geneva, North Korea said: "Triplets are supplied by the state free of charge with clothing, bedding, a one-year supply of dairy products and a pre-school subsidy, and special medical workers take charge of such mothers and children and care for their health."

[InvisibleChurch]

criminal

[Bogey78O]

I feel like finding a foreign set of triplets and training them ninja style so his fear will come true.

[Migraine]

Like Hedley Lamarr said in Blazing Saddles, when Taggart suggested slaughtering every male child under the age of 2:
"Nah, too Jewish".

[FreedomCalls]

Matthew 2:16
Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently enquired of the wise men.

[WellsFargo94]

Obviously Kim hasn't read Oedipus.

[Servant of the Nine]

Sounds like Hillary's kinda place to me.

So9

[PuNcH]

If Kim says so, its only a matter of time before the democrats denounce triplets.

[Genesis defender]

Someday Kim, you will pay for the awful things you are doing to those poor children.

And the U.S. is coming to collect.

[valkyrieanne]

This is an abomination before God.

[InvisibleChurch]

Yes, very much so.

[No Left Turn]

Dispatch from the workers paradise.

[JerseyHighlander]

That got me cracking up.

My take, Kim Jong-il read Animal Farm and took the parable about Napoleon's nine huge dogs seriously. If Kim Jong-il doesn't fall, when these kids are older he will hold one triplet hostage while forcing the other two to be deployed on internal death squads. Or it could be Kim Jong-il's attempt to start cloning experiments. The Nazi's Mengala had special tortures for multiple birth victims.

May his reign end soon, and never soon enough.

[SarahW]

There is evil in the world. They ARE the axis of evil.

[Black Agnes]

Actually, one of the seized triplets, in a rage due to be stolen from its parents just *might* topple the regime. (one day) Actions...consequences.

[TX Bluebonnet]

Actually, one of the seized triplets, in a rage due to be stolen from its parents just *might* topple the regime. (one day) Actions...consequences.

Exactly - seems like this is more likely to make his fear come true. Paranoia - will destroy ya.

[livis_dad]

This has got to be a joke. I can't believe it.

[geopyg]

Probably just like the story of toddlers in Saddam's prisons because their parents didn't toe the line. Must be made up 'cuz it's too unthinkable. Plus - neither story was in USA Today. ;)