I can’t stop thinking about Otto Warmbier. Toward the end of 2015 he was traveling in China when he signed up, out of curiosity and a sense of adventure, for a four-day New Year’s trip to North Korea. Here’s something else we know: Thousands — no, hundreds of thousands — of Koreans have been subjected to similar criminal abuse as Otto Warmbier suffered at the hands of North Korea’s Stalinist regime. Persons who are found to have engaged in major political crimes are ‘disappeared,’ without trial or judicial order, to political prison camps (kwanliso). The prison camps endure.

Source: Washington Post June 18, 2017 23:17 UTC