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“Guardians of North Korea’s Right to Abuse” are protesting the Chosun Ilbo for sponsoring the North Korean Human Rights Conference. Stop now, click here, and read every word, but especially these:
Organizations of this ilk are often deeply concerned about the human rights of people in faraway countries like Iraq and Burma. But on human rights abuses in North Korea they not only keep mum but attack efforts to improve human rights there as “acts threatening peace on the Korean Peninsula.” But that they surround Pyongyang’s abuses with such a powerful taboo is paradoxically proof that they are well aware how atrociously the North treats its own people.
They may be worried that the human rights issue is the Achilles heel of the North Korean regime, and any scratch will bring the whole thing down. If so, both their national conscience and their credentials as human rights organizations are deeply suspect. History may judge them as accomplices in the Kim Jong-il regime’s abuse of human rights.
Granted, I have reservations about newspapers getting themselves financially intertwined with the story, but given some of the recent stories from OhMyNews’s “citizen reporters”–whose own undisclosed connections to the North Korean regime’s international mouthpiece and its ideology are exposed in the comments below, we might have to conclude that objectivity has left town. In fact, I don’t give CNN, the BBC, or Fox much credit for being unbiased, either. Shop, you must.
All that remains is a need for someone will report the other half of the story. You, the jury, must vote on the charges in the Chosun‘s indictment. Only here, it’s an endless cycle of deliberations and verdicts.