But at Least They Didn’t Waterboard Her

You need to see the picture to believe this.

Bang had formerly been an actress with the propaganda squad of the Musan Mine. She fled the North with her children when her husband starved to death in 2002, but soon fell victim to human traffickers. She was arrested by Chinese police and was sent back to the North, where she was tortured. In 2004, she escaped again.

Bang testified that one 21-year-old pregnant woman who had fled to China and been forcibly repatriated was killed when she refused to have an abortion. Forced abortions of half-Chinese children apparently aim to prevent the proliferation of “unclean” stock due to the North’s archaic obsession with the national bloodline. [Chosun Ilbo]

If she’d been planning to blow up a skyscraper, right-thinking people would be calling for North Korea to be the same kind of pariah they once made of South Africa.  Why do I suspect that sympathy for evil is behind the selective outrage that’s destroying the very idea of human rights?  I introduce Exhibit A.