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On North Korea's human-rights violations, in the Japan Times:

"Beatings, torture and public executions for the pettiest and most trivial reasons are commonplace ... For citizens of North Korea, being killed by the state without reason is just business as usual ... Such a humanitarian crisis cannot be alleviated through 'strategic patience'--the strategy currently being adopted by the United States and other countries."

-1/10/11

Sources: UPI; AP; Reuters; NBC; Telegraph; AP (2)

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