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Topics => World/Foreign Affairs => Topic started by: oldcoastie6468 on February 20, 2014, 10:04:06 AM

Title: Leftists Finally Notice N Korean Horrors
Post by: oldcoastie6468 on February 20, 2014, 10:04:06 AM
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North Korea’s Kim Jong-un forced mothers to drown newborn babies: U.N. report

By Ashish Kumar Sen-The Washington Times Monday, February 17, 2014

North Korea forces women to undergo abortions and young mothers to drown their newborn babies, and has starved and executed hundreds of thousands of detainees at secret prison camps — atrocities that the chairman of a U.N. panel that documented the abuses compares to those of Nazi Germany.

“The gravity, scale and nature of these violations reveal a state that does not have any parallel in the contemporary world,” the U.N. Commission on Inquiry said in a 372-page report released Monday on North Korea’s atrocities. These crimes are ongoing because “the policies, institutions and patterns of impunity that lie at their heart remain in place.”

In an unprecedented act, commission Chairman Michael Kirby wrote to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un warning that he could be tried for crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court in The Hague.

At the State Department, spokeswoman Marie Harf said the Obama administration “strongly” welcomed the report. She said it “provides compelling evidence of widespread, systematic, and grave human rights violations” by the North.

“The report reflects the international community’s consensus view that the human rights situation in the [North] is among the world’s worst,” Ms. Harf said.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/feb/17/un-warns-north-koreas-kim-jong-un-strongly-worded-/?page=all#pagebreak (http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/feb/17/un-warns-north-koreas-kim-jong-un-strongly-worded-/?page=all#pagebreak)
Title: Re: Leftists Finally Notice N Korean Horrors
Post by: Libertas on February 20, 2014, 10:58:18 AM
An angry report.  How nice!  I bet those Norks straighten up and fly right any second now.  Any second.  Any...

 ::facepalm::
Title: Re: Leftists Finally Notice N Korean Horrors
Post by: AlanS on February 20, 2014, 12:51:31 PM
It'll get the same results as a sternly worded letter from the GOP.
Title: Re: Leftists Finally Notice N Korean Horrors
Post by: Glock32 on February 20, 2014, 03:42:28 PM
The Left won't understand that it's a sounding of the alarm. They'll think it's an instruction manual.
Title: Re: Leftists Finally Notice N Korean Horrors
Post by: Libertas on February 21, 2014, 08:32:04 AM
Deep enough into the horror, yes, no doubt you are correct.