[net-gold] COUNTRIES: NORTH KOREA: The Danger of North Korea is No Joke
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- Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 17:03:28 -0400 (EDT)
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COUNTRIES: NORTH KOREA:
The Danger of North Korea is No Joke
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The Danger of North Korea is No Joke
By Joshua Stanton and Sung-Yoon Lee
updated 9:09 AM EDT, Mon May 12, 2014
CNN
http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/12/opinion/
stanton-lee-north-korea-hate-crimes/index.html?iid=article_sidebar
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A shorter URL for the above link:
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Editor's note: Joshua Stanton, an attorney in Washington, has advised the
House Foreign Affairs Committee on North Korea-related legislation and
blogs at OneFreeKorea. Sung-Yoon Lee is Kim Koo-Korea Foundation Professor
of Korean Studies and assistant professor at the Fletcher School, Tufts
University. The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of
the writers.
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(CNN) -- In the past weeks, North Korean state media have called the
female President of South Korea a "dirty political harlot" and an "old
prostitute"; the gay chairman of the U.N. Commission of Inquiry on North
Korea "a disgusting old lecher with 40-odd-year-long career of
homosexuality"; and, in a loathsome screed, referred to U.S. President
Barack Obama as a "monkeyish human monstrosity."
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Still, North Korea's exceptionally vile words pale in comparison to its
criminal actions.
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In North Korea, racism isn't just talk. That U.N. Commission of Inquiry's
report summarizes testimony from North Korean refugee women and former
border guards who say that the regime forcibly aborts or murders the
babies of refugee women sent back to North Korea by China, on the
presumption that the babies' fathers were Chinese, to maintain the myth of
state-mandated "racial purity." It described a system of hereditary
discrimination, based on perceived political loyalty, that denies
lower-caste North Koreans opportunities for education, employment, and
even food.
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The report asserts that Pyongyang fines women for wearing pants or riding
bicycles, and forces thousands of them into sexual slavery by denying them
an adequate supply of food. As for gay North Koreans, Pyongyang denies
that they even exist, and said the report was spurred by lies and "hostile
forces."
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North Korea's repellent language and actions teach us some uncomfortable
lessons:
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Topics Covered in This Article:
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First, North Korea's remaining defenders on the far left do not deserve to
be described as liberal or progressive.
Second, we should stop infantilizing North Korea and dismissing it as
ridiculous.
Third, North Korea is not a problem the Obama administration can keep
ignoring.
Fourth, North Korea can't be appeased or patronized away.
For once, actions must have consequences. For Pyongyang to enjoy the
benefits of civilization, it must live by the standards of civilization.
Accepting Pyongyang's hate at face value is a first step toward credibly
presenting Pyongyang with that dose of reality.
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
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Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
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