The White House Cares About North Korean Human Rights? Yeah, Right.

Source: Washington Post

It looks like the change-up in the White House Cabinet staff is bringing about a nice 2-in-1 attempt at scoring political points.

She showed up at a school in a coastal city in China nearly five months ago and begged for help. Instead, she was deported to her native North Korea and never seen again.

Now the case of Kim Chun Hee has made its way to the desk of President Bush, threatening to complicate the first White House visit of China's leader tomorrow and further irritate an irritable relationship.

Urged on by evangelical supporters from his home town and other activists elsewhere, Bush has taken a personal interest in human rights in North Korea and decided to make an example of Kim's asylum case. Alerted to her situation by a South Korean lawmaker, the White House issued a rare statement last month pronouncing itself "gravely concerned" about her fate and chastising China for sending her back.

For starters, the Bush White House is using the story of Kim Chun Hee to show their record on human rights. *cough, cough* (Funny, I know.)

Chun He was a North Korean citizen seeking relief and asylum in a coastal city of China, only to be swiftly returned and never heard from again.

One would assume at this point that she is either imprisoned, being tortured, or well...dead. Communist countries don't play nice with those who try to flee the country.

Bush is pandering to the extreme religious right of his party in chastising China. Bush, urged by evangelical supporters from his home town and other activists elsewhere, has taken a personal interest in human rights in North Korea.

Time to score cheap points in the press for the mindless monkeys who will stand by Bush till the end. By monkeys, I'm referring to the fundies who most of the conservatives in the Republican party and everyone else have grown to despise.

There is also that issue of further pissing off that other big country in Asia who has nukes--China.

Some of the old guard in the Pentagon and Bush's inner-circle must be getting off just thinking about pushing China's face in the mud over this issue.

Two things clearly come out of these politically-motivated moves:

1.) This administration still has no clue about what the term "diplomacy" means. They are in love with manifest destiny and all things war, after all.

2.) People who don't think for themselves--the extremely right-leaning fundies--will actually believe this staged crap and use it to defend their theocratic leader to the end.

That's it; same song, same moronic leaderless BS, just another day.

Tags: [China], [Bush], [Kim Chun Hee], [girl flees from North Korea to China, only to be returned to North Korea], [Bush chastises China over Kim Chun Hee], [Bush is listening to the religious right again], [Bush pisses off Chinese president who is on an US tour right now in 3...2...1]