In the past weeks, North Korean state media have called the female President of South Korea a "dirty political harlot" and an "old prostitute";  the gay chairman of the U.N. Commission of Inquiry on North Korea "a disgusting old lecher with 40-odd-year-long career of homosexuality"; and, in a loathsome screed, referred to U.S. President Barack Obama as a "monkeyish human monstrosity." Still, North Korea's exceptionally vile words pale in comparison to its criminal actions. In North Korea, racism isn't just talk. That U.N. Commission of Inquiry's report summarizes testimony from North Korean refugee women and former border guards who say that the regime forcibly aborts or murders the babies of refugee women sent back to North Korea by China, on the presumption that the babies' fathers were Chinese, to maintain the myth of state-mandated "racial purity." It described a system of hereditary discrimination, based on perceived political loyalty, that denies lower-caste North Koreans opportunities for education, employment, and even food.
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North Korean state media hurl foul insults against Obama, South Korea president, others
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Writers: U.N. report finds vile words nothing like the hate crimes against its own people
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Writers: Obama administration can't ignore regime that assists Iran, Syria, terror groups
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They say Pyongyang must be convinced by strong sanctions that change is its only choice
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@placeholder's words reflect the character of its political system.
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Since 2008, @placeholder has refused to show up at six-party de-nuclearization talks, in spite of U.S. and South Korean offers of aid.
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Despite years of aid and engagement, @placeholder shows no interest in reform, has become more dangerous to South Korea as well as to its own people, and has become more hostile to the U.S. and the world.
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Despite years of aid and engagement, North Korea shows no interest in reform, has become more dangerous to @placeholder as well as to its own people, and has become more hostile to the U.S. and the world.
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Today, @placeholder is on the verge of a fourth nuclear test.
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@placeholder uses its access to the civilized world to supply its increasingly wealthy elite with cash, while, according to the United Nations, 84% of North Korean households have poor or borderline food consumption.