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Exultate Justi
Monday, February 16, 2009
 
North Korea's genocidal madman celebrates his 67th - and the Guardian joins in


Hat tip to Mr. Stuttaford

While I can't say that I'm surprised at the "neutral" stance that The Guardian takes in its photo essay on the life of DPRK dictator and all-around swell guy Kim Jong-Il (charmingly described as "one of the world's most mysterious leaders"), I can't help but think that pictures like this:



Or this one:



Should probably be replaced with a few like these:


Children starving at the height of NK's largely gov't-induced famine


Same


Screenshots from a secretly-taped public execution in NK - the two shown in the circle were tied to posts, and shot, in front of the entire town. Their crime? Attempting to escape the country.


Google Earth image of Camp 22 - a concentration camp encompassing nearly 500 square miles of territory, where thousands of political prisoners have been held, tortured, and murdered for decades. The process continues to this day. See a nice summary here.

Or maybe...just maybe, a simple Powerpoint slide with a few little numbers would be ideal; numbers like 2-3 million (number of North Koreans who died during the famine of the mid-late 90s), 2-300,000 (the number of North Koreans estimated to be held inside NK's network of concentration camps for political prisoners), or 400,000 (the number of North Korean refugees estimated to be hiding inside of China - a number made up largely of women and children), or 80% (an estimate of the percentage of NK women who escape to China, only to be sold into the sex trade).

Maybe that's just me, though.

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