HUMAN RIGHTS/NORTH KOREA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump praised North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un — a man who leads a government that outside observers say brutalizes and starves its own citizens — as someone who ‘loves his people.’ Speaking with Voice of America’s Greta Van Susteren following his historic summit in Singapore on Tuesday [6-12-18], Trump called Kim ‘funny’ and ‘smart…’ North Korea has perpetuated human rights abuses for decades, according to watchdog agencies, human rights groups and the US government. A 2014 report from a United Nations Human Rights Council commission found the country had committed violations including ‘arbitrary detention, torture, executions and enforced disappearance to political prison camps, violations of the freedoms of thought, expression and religion, (and) discrimination on the basis of State-assigned social class, gender, and disability.'”
-Maegan Vazquez, “Trump says accused human rights abuser Kim Jong Un ‘loves his people,'” CNN Politics, CNN.com, June 12, 2018 11:09 am