“The horror of life in North Korea is so complete that citizens pay bribes to government officials to have themselves exported abroad as slaves. For the first time since 2014, there was no U.S.-sponsored Security Council meeting on North Korean human rights last year. The administration’s abrupt reversal on North Korean human rights shows that it fundamentally misunderstands the challenge presented by the world’s last Stalinist regime. The simple truth is that the North Korean regime, its nuclear arsenal and its system of repression are intricately linked. The U.N. rapporteur on North Korea, Tomás Ojea Quintana, reported late last year that “the human rights situation at the moment has not changed on the ground in North Korea despite the important progress on security, peace and prosperity.”Trump’s diplomacy with North Korea has been revealed as a fantasy.

Source: Washington Post March 01, 2019 20:58 UTC