Of course they weren’t the “same” ones. The point being that SCOTUS isn’t infallible and has made bad decisions the past. Several others pertaining to civil rights, as I recall.
Who do you think POTUS should deal with? Kim's wife?
You’re completely (and probably deliberately) missing the point.
Actions like this are one reason sanctions were imposed to begin with. This is a cruel dictator, not the type of person you shower with praise as a great guy. admiring how his people sit at attention and listen when he talks. The US should be using human rights and the miserable way he treats his own people as a key part of any negotiations, instead of sticking heads in the sand like selfish cowards.
Corn and rice. He was publicly shot 90 times (by prisoners forced to be his executioners) for giving his unit additional corn and rice than their standard ration. Out of a surplus.
I wouldn’t be surprised if he was turned in by one of the recipients.
Anyone wants some insight into life in North Korea, read A River in Darkness - a first hand account of a man who after several miserable decades escaped from there during the great famine of the 1990’s. Kim’s grandfather and then his father were in charge during the timespan of the book, but it shows you the legacy and mindset of the ruling family - I haven’t heard anything to suggest things there have changed all that much.
In other news:
On Russian state TV today a panel was discussing how they could exploit POTUS' vulnerabilities, like his vanity, for their own benefit. Right out in the open. So far no reprimands or comments from anyone in the US gov.
