Conservative media dominate in South Korea. They are always criticizing North Korean human rights abuses, and attacking their own elected government for trying to end the Korean conflict now 70 years old. Every time the South Korean government tries to change the status quo with North Korea, by entering agreements to try to defuse military tension and end of the risk of accidental war, there is an uproar in the press in South Korea and here in the US.
Thae Yong Ho, a prominent North Korean defector, has his own media domain, and now as a member of the South Korean National Assembly along with another North Korean defector, gets international press coverage. Thae is on tv frequently. Here in the US the pro-human rights ngo's get their anti North Korea messages out at the UN, at the think tanks and in the US media. Prominent North Korean defectors are invited to the US Congress to give speeches. Virtually all the US media and other western media take a dim view of the human rights record of North Korea.
VOA Korea, including the English language broadcast Washington Talk every weekend, puts out criticism of North Korea's human rights record non-stop.
The US policy toward North Korea is regime change. Anyone who thinks otherwise isn't paying attention. North Korea is being strangled by international sanctions. The US Congress is virtually of one mind in terms of bringing down North Korea.
She says "no one cares?"
Corruption in South Korea's administration of justice is now in the headlines. The conduct of the prosecutors offices there has been disgraceful for years, covering up crimes by their right wing cronies and corrupt corporate officials while prosecuting politicians on the democratic side on trumped up charges continuing a tradition from the old dictatorships. Nothing new there. So this week HRW releases some a report about how bad the criminal justice system, if you can call it that, is in North Korea, and all the attendant human rights abuses there to suck the air out of room concerning South Korean abuses of political power in the courts. The point is that there is a multi million dollar well oiled international anti North Korea effort operating non stop 24-7, particularly with regard to human rights abuses there.
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