Gas Chambers in North Korea

A recent defector from North Korea reports that the regime uses gas chambers to murder dissidents and their families, sometimes unto the third generation in an effort to wipe out "bad blood." As with all enterprises of mass murder, this one is made possible by the ability of the regime to dehumanize its victims. The defector reports:

"At the time I felt that they thoroughly deserved such a death. Because all of us were led to believe that all the bad things that were happening to North Korea were their fault; that we were poor, divided and not making progress as a country. It would be a total lie for me to say I feel sympathetic about the children dying such a painful death. Under the society and the regime I was in at the time, I only felt that they were the enemies. So I felt no sympathy or pity for them at all."

Surely any negotiations with such a regime must aim toward the overthrow of Kim Jong-il, not merely another attempt to reign him in.