North Korea Calls Botswana Ambassador A “Black Bastard”
Via One Free Korea comes the latest example of North Korea’s racist attitudes and lack of regard for human rights:
North Korean officials making a rare appearance at a United Nations human rights event on Wednesday laughed among themselves at the testimony of former labor camp detainees and referred to the ambassador of Botswana with derogatory racial language, according to Korean-speaking sources who overheard their conversations and spoke with VICE News.
The special session featured an awkward and testy exchange between Kim Ju Song, advisor for political affairs at the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s mission to the UN, and Michael Kirby, the retired Australian judge who headed a recent UN commission of inquiry into North Korean human rights abuses. The commission released a report in March that cited forced labor, starvation, persecution of religious believers, and a massive network of political prisons holding up to 120,000 people among various violations and crimes against humanity committed by North Korea’s government.
Speaking along with Kirby were the ambassadors of Australia, Panama and Botswana — whose delegations co-sponsored the hearing — as well as two former North Korean detainees whose experiences were featured in the commission’s report.
At one point, members of the North Korean delegation were heard referring to Botswana’s UN Ambassador Charles Ntwaagae in Korean as “that black bastard,” sources who were nearby told VICE News. They also chuckled at the testimony of Kirby and the two prison escapees, Jung Gwang-il and Kim Hye Sook. Those in the room with the North Korean delegation who later spoke with VICE News insisted on anonymity due to fear of reprisal. [VICE News]
You can read more at the link, but people shouldn’t be surprised by the racist attitudes if they have read B.R. Myers book the Cleanest Race.
Shocking…but still ROTFLMAO…
Hmmm, most S. Koreans and their children would call him a monkey and laugh. The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree with the “cleanest race.”
Perhaps Charles Ntwaagae was part of the Royal Ulster Constabulary?
Well the guy is black, is he a bastard? If so then the comment was accurate, if not then only 50% accurate.
What’s the DPRK’s beef with Botswana anyway? Is that really a country? I know there’s a border drawn around that area but I mean come on… Africa…
The Korean probably translates closer to “tarbaby” anyway.
Botswana should not sit still over this affront to their national pride and soverignty.
They should strike decisively… or, at the very least, park one of their carrier groups off the North Korean coast in a show of force.
Man how many people do you think are going to get that joke?
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