Nearly one year ago, North Korea unleashed an
unrelenting barrage of rhetoric against the US, with hard talk of
"pre-emptive nuclear strikes on the headquarters of the aggressors".
These kind of threats had been heard before, but this time the
continual verbal bombardment was striking. The reason? North Korea's
deep and raw anger at the latest UN resolution on sanctions which were
unanimously approved.The current UN inquiry says North Korea's crimes against humanity resemble those committed by the Nazis and that the leadership is committing systematic and appalling human rights abuses against its own citizens on a scale unparalleled in the modern world.
There's no doubt this will have, once again, enraged the Democratic People's Republic of Korea leadership.
It also makes China's continued support of North Korea increasingly difficult.
That's a notion that America is already trying to capitalise on.
The UN report on human rights abuses only bolsters his argument.
The State Department has welcomed the findings, saying it "reflects the international community's consensus view that the human rights situation in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea is among the world's worst".
North Korea says he used his tourism business to form groups to overthrow the government and has refused US requests to grant him special amnesty and immediate release on humanitarian grounds.
The UN report is unlikely to change their minds.
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