In negotiations with North Korea, neither the U.S. nor Japan, and
certainly
not China, ever raise the question of human rights. What's the use?
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and what's the purpose of 'raising the question of human rights?"
to determine how much of our tax dollars will go to their
democratization?
Perhaps our politicians should read Escape from Camp 14.
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perhaps our politicians should read a little Ron Paul, George
Washington and Thomas Jeffereson.
Thomas Jefferson summed up the noninterventionist foreign policy
position perfectly in his 1801 inaugural address: "Peace, commerce,
and honest friendship with all nations — entangling alliances with
none." Washington similarly urged that we must, "Act for ourselves and
not for others," by forming an "American character wholly free of
foreign attachments."
"I believe our founding fathers had it right when they argued for
peace and commerce between nations, and against entangling political
and military alliances. In other words, noninterventionism." - RP
"It is our true policy to steer clear of entangling alliances with
any portion of the foreign world." – George Washington
George Washington's following statement corroborates with Thomas
Jefferson's famous statement made in his 1801 inauguration address
("peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling
alliances with none")
My policy has been and will continue to be … to be on friendly
terms with, but "independent of, all nations" on earth. To share in
the broils of none. To supply their wants, and be carriers for them
all; being thoroughly convinced that it is our policy and interest to
do so; and that nothing short of self-respect, and that justice which
is essential to a national character, ought to involve us in war.
On May 17, 9:03 am, Bear Bear <thatbear...@gmail.com> wrote:
> *Shocking. Maybe some of those Marxist occupado's should go and see what
> communism is really like.
>
> *
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> By Peter Worthington <http://www.ottawasun.com/author/peter-worthington> ,QMI
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> [image: Shin Dong-hyuk 160512] Shin Dong-hyuk, likely the only man to
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> TORONTO - Arguably, the most poignant interview ever broadcast on CBC
> Radio's The Curent, was the story this week, of Shin Dong-hyuk — possibly
> the only person ever to escape from a North Korean slave-labour prison camp.
>
> All stories about prisons are harsh, but prisons, or political labour camps
> run by totalitarian regimes can be beyond rational comprehension. And while
> the Soviet gulag with its millions confined, and China's with even more
> millions in custody, are inhumane and brutal, they pale to horrors of North
> Korea's slave camps. Especially in the year 2012.
>
> As the only person ever to escape from a NK camp, Shin Dong-hyuk's story is
> important as it is unique in giving the world a peek inside that regime,
> and how the ruling Kim family maintains absolute control through fear and
> cruelty.
>
> Journalist Blaine Harden discovered Shin, and tells his story in a book —
> Escape from Camp 14. Harden, a translator and Shin were interviewed by Anna
> Maria Tremonti on the CBC, and provided a wealth of appalling reality that
> defies imagination.
>
> Estimates are that roughly 200,000 are in NK slave-labour camps — three
> generations of inmates. Shine was born in Camp 14. The only food inmates
> ate was a mush of corn, cabbage and salt — supplemented by mice if they
> could catch them. And insects.
>
> The electrified razor wire around the camp would kill any who touched it.
> Anyone caught talking about escaping was shot. Shin was conceived when
> guards allowed brief intimacy between a male and female inmate for obedient
> behaviour.
>
> At age 14, he heard his mother and brother talking about escape, and was so
> fearful and indoctrinated that he asked a guard what he should do. The
> guard turned him in, and he was roasted over a charcoal fire to extract
> more information. Then he witnessed his mother and brother hanged.
>
> Rather than feel guilt at their death, he was angry that their loose talk
> made life tougher for him. Normal, human instincts were channeled into
> self-preservation.
>
> Shin and another inmate decided to escape, but the other guy was
> electrocuted trying to get past the fence. Shin crawled over his friend's
> dead body, which grounded the current. He fled north, stole an army
> uniform, got into China and made his way to Shanghai, where he reached the
> South Korean embassy and was taken to Seoul.
>
> Among his recollections is a schoolgirl in Camp 14 being beaten to death by
> a teacher because she had a few kernels of corn in her pocket.
>
> When Shin accidentally dropped a sewing machine, half his middle finger was
> chopped off as punishment. Guards had inmates beat other inmates who broke
> rules.
>
> Responding to Tremonti's question how such inhumane treatment could go on
> when even Russia and China were easing restrictions, author Harden
> explained that three generations of Kims rule the world's most tyrannical,
> oppressive state.
>
> Kim Il-sung instigated the slave camps, followed by Kim Jong-il and now Kim
> Jong-un who maintain them. North Koreans know of these prisons and fear
> them to the point of absolute submissiveness and obedience.
>
> Once convicted to a camp, relatives and children are confined to them.
>
> Stalin used fear and intimidation as tools for control, North Korea even
> more so.
>
> "Class enemies" destined for these horror camps include those who dare
> practice Christianity, or who don't keep photographs of Kim dusted and
> prominent in their homes.
>
> If caught, listening to a foreign radio broadcasts can be fatal. As Shin's
> youthful experience indicated those with deviant thoughts, can be executed.
> Until he escaped at age 29, he had never tasted chicken or pork — only corn
> mush.
>
> China is North Korea's protector — more fearful of having affluent, dynamic
> South Korea as a neighbour without impoverished NK as a buffer, than it is
> concerned about such niggling nuisances as basic human rights.
>
> In negotiations with North Korea, neither the U.S. nor Japan, and certainly
> not China, ever raise the question of human rights. What's the use? Perhaps
> our politicians should read Escape from Camp 14.
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