The Pressure Is Off on Human Rights in North Korea
North Korea no longer feels the constraint of international pressure — particularly American pressure — so it believes that it has a free hand to try to increase its internal control by any means necessary. Witness last week’s decision by South Korea to abstain again from a U.N. resolution condemning the North, a reversal of a hard-won gain. Two of the ways the regime is trying to reassert itself: tightening its border controls and carrying out more public executions.
It’s yet more evidence to debunk the idea that weak diplomacy will improve the lot of the North Korean people.