Wall Street Journal (May 18)
“South Korean President Lee Myung-bak deserves praise for one accomplishment above all others: He has put human rights in North Korea on the world’s agenda.” North Korea’s network of labor camps has been exposed. The suffering of the approximately 200,000 political prisoners should convince other nations against trying to improve North Korea through engagement. “Sustaining Pyongyang with aid only extends the misery of those imprisoned in the North’s gulag.”
“South Korean President Lee Myung-bak deserves praise for one accomplishment above all others: He has put human rights in North Korea on the world’s agenda.” North Korea’s network of labor camps has been exposed. The suffering of the approximately 200,000 political prisoners should convince other nations against trying to improve North Korea through engagement. “Sustaining Pyongyang with aid only extends the misery of those imprisoned in the North’s gulag.”
Los Angeles Times (April 4)
Where is the outrage? “In North Korea, children are bred like livestock in labor camps. They are taught to betray their parents. They are worked to death.” Three generations of the Kim dynasty have now “presided over this human rights catastrophe.” Six labor camps house 200,000 inmates who “do hard labor while subsisting on a starvation diet…. They usually die of hunger-related illness before turning 50.” Still America takes little notice.
Where is the outrage? “In North Korea, children are bred like livestock in labor camps. They are taught to betray their parents. They are worked to death.” Three generations of the Kim dynasty have now “presided over this human rights catastrophe.” Six labor camps house 200,000 inmates who “do hard labor while subsisting on a starvation diet…. They usually die of hunger-related illness before turning 50.” Still America takes little notice.
Tags: Human rights, Hunger, Kim, Labor camps, North Korea, U.S.
