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...nuclear crisis on the Korean Peninsula has hung over the U.S. ever since Bush declared his "skepticism" about the regime. "I loathe Kim Jong Il," he told author Bob Woodward. "I've got a visceral reaction to this guy because he is starving his people." Bush said that, unlike the Clinton Administration, his would not submit to Kim's nuclear blackmail by rewarding the obdurate nation for abandoning its illicit ambitions. For the next 18 months, North Korea was pretty much ignored...
...like ... asking whether a venomous snake will bite." Hwang Jang Yop, highest ranking defector from North Korea, when asked during a trip to the U.S. if Kim Jong Il is a threat...
...empty rhetoric to the hundreds of thousands of North Koreans who live?and in many cases die?in actual prison camps. Last week, the private U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea released The Hidden Gulag: Exposing North Korea's Prison Camps, a chillingly comprehensive description of Kim Jong Il's hellish penal system. Written by veteran human rights investigator David Hawk, the report draws on interviews with 30 former guards and inmates, including escapees forcibly repatriated from China. Among their revelations...
...Crime Too Small North Koreans have received life sentences for crimes as simple as singing a South Korean pop song or spilling ink on a photo of Kim Jong Il. Often, up to three generations of a prisoner's family are sentenced along with the culprit, on the theory of guilt by association...
...President Bush offered little by way of detail on his North Korea proposal, but signaled that it would involve a multilateral written guarantee to respect Pyongyang's sovereignty, signed by all five parties to the talks with Kim Jong Il's government - South Korea, Japan, China, Russia and the U.S. The President reiterated that a formal non-aggression pact between the U.S. and North Korea, as demanded by Pyongyang, is "off the table." (Even if the administration had been inclined to offer such a deal, it would not easily win ratification in the Senate.) Still, the very fact that Washington...