The vilification of North Korea begins - OMG, they're killing babies!

[BushOut06]

I knew it, you all knew it, soon the world will know it. North Korea is right, we have every intention of taking them out after we get done with Iran. This time, it's not going to be enough to use the "nuclear card". We're going to absolutely vilify them every possible way we can. I guarantee you that within a few short years, most Americans will be convinced that Kim Jong Il is worse than Hitler and Stalin combined.

Check out this report from a "defector":
http://reuters.myway.com/article/20060322/2006-03-22T123122Z_01_SEO27580_RTRIDST_0_NEWS-KOREA-NORTH-RIGHTS-DC.html

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea has no people with physical disabilities because they are killed almost as soon as they are born, a physician who defected from the communist state said on Wednesday.

Ri Kwang-chol, who fled to the South last year, told a forum of rights activists that the practice of killing newborns was widespread but denied he himself took part in it.

"There are no people with physical defects in North Korea," Ri told members of the New Right Union, which groups local activists and North Korean refugees.

He said babies born with physical disabilities were killed in infancy in hospitals or in homes and were quickly buried.

The practice is encouraged by the state, Ri said, as a way of purifying the masses and eliminating people who might be considered "different."


Expect to be fed a steady diet of such horror stories over the next few years. Pretty soon Americans will be demanding that we take action against North Korea.

BTW - I'm not saying that such atrocities don't happen in North Korea, I'm sure there are lots of things that we don't know about. But at the same time, there are ruthless governments and brutal dictators all around the globe. Are we going to take care of all of them? Or just the ones that fall into the "Axis of Evil"?

[DS1]

1. I wonder what they have to say about Stephen Hawking

:eyes:

[SledDriver]

2. That won't get them.

Now if they were performing abortions, then...

[cantstandbush]

3. They doing much more than that in Darfur, but who is going to help them?

Please read up on the situation in the Sudan.

[BushOut06]

4. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

There are plenty of places in Africa that are pretty horrific - Sierra Leone, Liberia, Rwanda, Zambia, Congo, etc.

[katmondoo]

5. I thought they were killing girl babies in India too

[Untermonkey]

7. You're spot on.

I think we don't see much of what is happening in Darfur because starving black people trapped in a war doesn't sell newspapers. We saw the same thing happen 12 years ago in Rwanda. Hundreds of thousands of people killed in a civil war yet very little media coverage.

I believe that if the citizens of Darfur were white Europeans we'd see much more media coverage but they had the unfortunate luck of being born black in a country 99% of Americans couldn't find on a map.

[cali]

6. We're not going to take on N. Korea

militarily. Reports like the one you cite have been coming out of N. Korea for years and years. Nothing new about it. And yes, there are many places in the world where atrocities are ongoing, but I can't think of a society creepier than N. Korea. That's certainly no reason to invade it, but it is a fascinating example of the extremes of totalitarianism.

[BushOut06]

8. I hope not, but I wouldn't put it past this admin

Especially if he feels emboldened by whatever he does in Iran, he might feel like he has to complete his "Axis of Evil" before leaving office and create a legacy for himself. Remember, he actually considers what he's done in Iraq as a "success".

And yes, reports have been coming out of NK for years. But most of those have been relegated to the Hisotry & Discovery channels. I would fully expect to start seeing these stories get more "primetime" coverage in the next year.

[cali]

9. We won't do anything to Iran either. Both Russia

and China are adamently opposed to any action. bushco simply can't afford the fallout from an attack on Iran. We have 130,000+ soldiers next door in Iraq, and they're vulnerable to attacks from Iran, which actually has an armed forces. The amount of U.S. debt held by China means that if they called that debt in, it could spark serious worldwide economic troubles. Even England opposes an attack on Iran. bushco is in a weakened state, and they're ability to create a crisis is undermined by their past maneuvers in that vein.

[Javaman]

10. killing them? I thought they were eating them... nt