WASHINGTON -- Watching the media fawning over the
North Korean delegation at the Pyeongchang Olympics, I recalled a
picture that my old boss, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, kept
under the glass of a table in his office -- a satellite photo of the
Korean Peninsula at night. At the bottom, awash in light, is the free
and democratic South. Meanwhile, the North is in complete darkness, save
for a tiny pinprick of light in Pyongyang. The two countries, Rumsfeld
would often point out, have the same people and the same natural
resources. Yet one is glowing with the light of freedom, innovation and
enterprise, while the other is enveloped in the total darkness of human
misery.
Keep that darkness in mind while
watching the North's Olympic charm offensive over these two weeks. Kim
Yo Jong, the sister of Kim Jong Un, is not the "North Korean Ivanka."
She is the vice director of the Propaganda and Agitation Department, a
senior leader of the most brutal repressive totalitarian regime on the
face of the Earth. As one defector told The Washington Post last year,
"It's like a religion. From birth, you learn about the Kim family, learn
that they are gods, that you must be absolutely obedient to the Kim
family."
Any perceived disloyalty to the Kim family can result
in a visit in the middle of the night from the Bowibu -- the North
Korean secret police -- that could send not just the offender, but three
generations of his or her relatives, to a forced labor camp for life.
North Korea's system of "re-education" camps, which was recently mapped
by satellite by the Committee for Human Rights in North Korea, is the
most extensive in the world. Under three generations of Kims, hundreds
of thousands, if not millions, have been imprisoned and killed in these
camps. Inmates undergo the most brutal forms of torture imaginable,
including being hung on hooks over open fires, while pregnant women are
tied to trees while their babies are cut out of their bellies.Source : Foxnews
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