Why is it that America feeds and fancies contemporary aristocrats who have been given a degree of freedom and fame that has led to a diplomacy with a state that is single-handedly responsible for bringing back the complete and Nazi-like disregard of human rights? Of course, it would be a sweeping generalization to blame America for the particular strain of irresponsibility known to one individual who has shown a shocking and offensive acceptance for the appalling conditions in which Kim Jong-un dictates his country.
Dennis Rodman, a well-known ex-NBA superstar has recently been caught on tape visiting North Korea AGAIN (for the second time). He was daintily stepping down the ladder jutting out of his private jet that had landed in NK on the third of September to visit his international buddy, Kim Jong-un, or as he calls him: "The Marshall."
(Picture found here.)
Why would a reporter like me become so passionately... concerned about a trivial tabloid event such as this? Because the recent impunity of human rights that has been reported in NK is a troubling and upsetting story, and it is difficult to understand how any normal,common-sense, empathetic human being would befriend a sociopathic dictator.
To summarize, the current evidence that is being leaked out of NK is that in some prison camps, there have been instances of women being forced to drown their own babies, and men living their entire lives in these camps, growing up learning to help collect bodies of starved people and burn them. There have been stories of people eating grass, rodents, and other miscellaneous items that are hardly classified as food.
In this case, Dennis Rodman, the "bystander" card, is hardly valid. Hanging out with a human rights violator, condoning his rule, his lifestyle, and his personality, is as much a crime as the perpetrator if you ask me. Being treated highly with money that starves millions is immoral. Period.
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