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N. Korea Could Face Prosecution For 'Crimes Against Humanity'
An anonymous reader writes with this news from The Telegraph: "North Korea's leader, Kim Jong-un, has been warned that he could face prosecution for crimes against humanity after a United Nations inquiry accused him of some of the worst human rights abuses since the Second World War. In some of the harshest criticism ever unleashed by the international community against the Pyongyang regime, a UN panel branded it 'a shock to the conscience of humanity.' Michael Kirby, a retired Australian judge who has spent nearly a year taking testimony from victims of the regime, said much of it reminded him of atrocities perpetrated by Nazi Germany and Pol Pot's Cambodia. Yesterday his team published a 374-page report detailing allegations of murder, torture, rape, abductions, enslavement, and starvation, describing North Korea as a dictatorship 'that does not have any parallel in the contemporary world.' In a bid to put pressure on Kim Jong-un, 31, Mr Kirby has taken the unusual step of writing to the North Korean leader to warn him that both he and hundreds of his henchmen could one day face prosecution."
More at the BBC, including a cache of the report.
From their point of view, people are nothing but cogs in their machinery of state to be used and abused as necessary to keep the machinery turning. A person has no more value to them than a horse or a cow...maybe even less. Moreover, this is not new. The North Koreans were doing the same thing to pows during the Korean War, many of who never returned. They invented 'brainwashing' which was basically continuous torture until the target was mentally broken. They are still holding the USS Pueblo that they illegally seized from the US Navy in 1968. The captain of the Pueblo provided graphic descriptions of the torture he witnessed while held in captivity. President Bush termed them part of the 'Axis of Evil.' They recently threatened us with thermonuclear devastation and have repeatedly launched missiles over international waters. The UN is still technically at war with the North Koreans. The latest UN report on atrocities is just another in a mountain of paper describing how wicked people do wicked things.
Add to list of criminals "Saudi Arabia" and "Israel".
Then? I might believe that this is generated by higher human considerations.
Remember, when Governments and Billionaires urge you to care for the welfare and rights of others, far away and isolated? You are being set up for a con.
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Never been known to fail..."
As much as we can criticize many regimes for their ill conduct, I have a hard time imagining that what the Saudis or Israelis do is anything close to the North Korean regime's abuses.
So you are poorly informed AND you have a weak imagination.
Are the rest of us supposed to be persuaded because YOU are a fool ?
And Saudi is a tacit Israeli partner. The paid thug. Who were the 9/1 hijackers?
Do you actually believe they carried their own valid passports? This last point. Really? To think they carried ID beggars belief.
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
What about US of A? Last time I checked, they invaded 2 countries in the last decade, causing more than 500k human deaths.
When will the UN indict Bush, Blair and Cheney for that?
I don't have a sig.
The USA is currently the invader of over 100 countries, worldwide.
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."