Historically, the Biggest Violator of Human Rights on the Korean Peninsula Isn't North Korea
NOVANEWS
By Joseph Essertier
US armed forces target rail cars south of Wonsan, North Korea, an east coast port city, in 1950 during the Korean War. (Photo: US Army Military History Institute)
On February 22, 2018, at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), Vice President Mike Pence described North Korea as "the most tyrannical and oppressive regime on the planet, an evil family clique that brutalizes, subjugates, starves and imprisons its 25 million people."
As a rare, concrete example of North Korea's "horrendous human rights abuses and crimes against humanity," Pence trotted out the tragic case of Otto Warmbier, who suffered a "severe neurological injury" of unknown cause, according to the coroner in Ohio, and died at the age of 22 after being released by North Korea's g...