North Korea: A dent in the Hermit Kingdom's Armor

Fire of Liberty

The Christian Science Monitor has a startling article on the horrific treatment that various North Korea refugees face if they're ever repatriated to the Hermit Kingdom. Just read what awaits these poor souls in this frozen Korean hell-hole:

North Korean refugees claim that an underground group called Youth League for Freedom shot the tape, which records about 104 minutes over two days.

The camera is held at mid-body and initial images are of a rush of dark winter coats, a thronging crowd, police officers pushing people into line. Some 1,500 persons appear scattered around a rocky ravine. At one point, a white "propaganda truck" pulls up and over a megaphone one hears a charge read out. The accused are described as prostitute traffickers. (Sources insist the executed were helping Koreans escape the North.)

In due course, white posts are hammered into the ground. Then two men are escorted from a tent. Their arms are tied to the post. People stand on top of bicycles to see. A woman is heard to say, "I can't watch this." A police chief's voice calls out, "Aim, fire, fire, fire." Nine shots by three soldiers ring out from behind the prisoners, who instantly fall. An official with a megaphone can be heard saying, "How pathetic is the end of these traitors of the fatherland."

What's even worse is that the South Korean government refuses to accept this as fact let alone allow this to be aired due to a fear of offending the odious regime of the North. It's sad that a beacon of freedom and democracy on the Korean peninsula is all too willing to appease the North Koreans in their idiotic "sunshine policy" in hope of re-unifying the two Koreas. The only problem is that Kim Jong Il will continue such bad behavior as long as the South Koreans continue this inane "sunshine policy" while avoiding an outright confrontation of the North as a tyrannical regime which commits various atrocities against its people. The longer one works with the wicked regime of North Korea, the longer the people of North Korea suffer. Can't we end this sanity and stop beating around the bush on this manner. I think this particular film will be one of many cracks in the regime of Kim Jong Il.

For more on North Korea check here, here, and here.