Death should shine light on N. Korea’s rights abuses; Guest Column
Anyone with human feelings is outraged by
The term "murder" is justified, although we don't know exactly how this bright, adventurous student was brutalized after his arrest on a tourist visit to
Yet note that, unlike Sen.
That's because the Trump team, like three previous administrations, is struggling to find a strategy to prevent
So will there ever be justice for Otto? And will there ever be punishment for
"In the dichotomy between the nuclear issue and the extraordinary human and personalized dimension of what
Few Americans are aware of the massive system of concentration camps run by the North Koreans for anyone deemed the least critical of the regime - and for the families of such "traitors." A U.N. commission report, in 2014, complete with satellite photos of the camps, estimated that hundreds of thousands of political prisoners have perished in these camps over the past five decades.
"The inmate population has been gradually eliminated through deliberate starvation, forced labor, executions, torture, rape and the denial of reproductive rights enforced through punishment, forced abortion and infanticide," the commission found.
"The unspeakable atrocities that are being committed against inmates of the political prison camps resemble the horrors of camps that totalitarian states established during the 20th century."
Given such chilling fanaticism, the vicious treatment of
His arrest in
Perhaps the Obama White House should have tried harder to win Warmbier's release - as Trump implied in a tweet. But at a time when
Which brings us again to the dilemma that
When Trump took office, many of his supporters - and many of my readers - assumed he would just bomb
Today, Kim's missiles can reach
In other words, a military option offers huge risks and insufficient rewards, as Trump already appears to realize. So he placed his hopes heavily on
Trump's latest tweets indicate that that hope has faded, as most
But if Warmbier's death affected Trump as deeply as he claims, Snyder also hopes it will impel the
Because
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"This one (Warmbier) case helps the human-rights dimension break through," Snyder says, adding, "That won't bring satisfaction and accountability."
But if
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