In this country, we joke that the first person to mention the Nazis in a political argument, loses. The point being that the Nazis etched permanent lines in the far end of the yardstick of evil and no matter how awful the results of a policy being advocated, there'll be no making leather out of human skin. We haven't done that kind of thing in this country since the shooting part of the Indian Wars ended in the 19th Century.
Comes now the report of United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the so-called Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. North Korea is officially and literally in the Nazi zone, with a gruesomeness that will not be suitable for broadcast TV.
China remains determined to protect North Korea from any Security Council action, although it's hard to picture what that would be when the police action from 1950 was ended by armistice rather than by treaty.
The result here will probably be indictments in the International Criminal Court. You know, under the treaty President Clinton signed and President Bush "un-signed"?
They call it the Hermit Kingdom because people can't leave. Now the leaders won't be able to leave, either, except for travel to China and to and from UN headquarters.
This puts to bed the assertions after WWII that atrocities of that kind would never be allowed to be conducted by a nation-state again.
The value of the report is that the world cannot claim it didn't know. Don't laugh. After WWII, people lined up to claim they didn't know.
Now, we know.