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'Abundant evidence' of crimes against humanity in North Korea, panel says
2014-02-18
[CNN] A stunning catalog of torture and the widespread abuse of even the weakest of North Koreans reveal a portrait of a brutal state "that does not have any parallel in the contemporary world," a United Nations
...an idea whose time has gone...
panel reported Monday.
Golly. It's only taken 62 years or so.
North Korean leaders employ murder, torture, slavery, sexual violence, mass starvation and other abuses as tools to prop up the state and terrorize "the population into submission," the United Nations Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in North Korea said in its report.

The commission traced the abuses directly to the highest levels of the North Korean government while simultaneously blaming world leaders for sitting on their hands amid untold agony.

"The suffering and tears of the people of North Korea demand action," commission Chairman Michael Kirby told news hounds.
Posted by:Fred

#2  The whole 'crimes against humanity' thing aside, we owe a debt of gratitude to the Norks. It is not often in the fuzzy sciences like economics that we get to do actual controlled experiments. However, in the late 20th century, we got to do it twice, once with Germany and once with Korea.

In both cases, we took a single country and split it in half. Once side got a free-market economy, the other got communism. The results were definitive and indisputable: communism sucks. That famous graphic is a visual example.

On behalf of everyone, I would like to thank the North Koreans for their...um, participation.
Posted by: SteveS   2014-02-18 21:13  

#1  "The suffering and tears of the people of North Korea demand action," commission Chairman Michael Kirby told news hounds.

"Now outta my way. The Buffet Line just opened."
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2014-02-18 08:26  

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