Kim's human rights record is among the world's worst
President Trump has called him a “very honorable” man.
In meeting with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un in Singapore, however, the president comes face to face with an autocrat who has perhaps the world’s most egregious human rights record, with tens of thousands of political prisoners, systemic torture and assassinations.
“Trump has said all the right things about North Korea human rights. On the other hand, he has such a fondness for dictators, I don’t know which side is going to come out in Singapore,” said David Hawk, the author of several reports on the North Korean prison gulags, ahead of the meeting.
The victims include his own family members: Kim has been accused of executing his uncle and other top aides with antiaircraft artillery and of assassinating his half-brother by a nerve agent in a Malaysia airport.
More broadly, an estimated 100,000 political prisoners are held in fetid gulag-style prisons, “re-education” camps and forced-labor centers. Many are killed through torture or starved to death, according to defectors who have fled North Korea.
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