Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials -- February 17, 2014

North Korea's Atrocities: What Is The World Going To Do? Not Much. -- Paul Whitefield, L.A. Times

Sometimes — as with North Korea and its despot of the moment, Kim Jong Un — I hate to admit it, but I miss the good/bad old days when we could just threaten to bomb someone back into the Stone Age to solve problems.

The U.N. Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in North Korea released a 400-page report Monday detailing just how bad things are there; here’s the laundry list:

“These crimes against humanity entail extermination, murder, enslavement, torture, imprisonment, rape, forced abortions and other sexual violence, persecution on political, religious, racial and gender grounds, the forcible transfer of populations, the enforced disappearance of persons and the inhumane act of knowingly causing prolonged starvation.”

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Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials

Exposing North Korea -- Wall Street Journal

Handing the Middle East to Russia -- Amir Taheri, New York Post

Iran’s Mixed Messages Ahead Of P5+1 Talks -- Jamie Dettmer, Daily Beast

Rouhani's campaign of hope and change collides with Iran's reality -- Scott Peterson, Christian Science Monitor

The Chinese And Japanese Economies Are Delinking: Prelude To Conflict? -- Gordon G. Chang, Forbes

Venezuela’s Maduro left alone to deal with protests -- Mauricio Savarese, RT

Bosnia presents a terrifying picture of Europe's future -- Igor Štiks, The Guardian

Swiss Fault Lines Exposed as Villagers See Risk to Postcard Life -- Corinne Gretler and Catherine Bosley, Bloomberg

Britannia Rues the Waves -- Roger Cohen, New York Times

Why Ukraine? Just Take A Look At Their Neighbors -- Dmitri Oreshkin, World Crunch

Will Putin's $50 Billion Bet on Sochi Pay Off? -- Carlo Angerer, NBC

The Darkest Hour Of Venezuelan Democracy -- World Crunch

Is Al Qaeda about to expand the 'field of jihad' to Lebanon? -- Nicholas Blanford, Christian Science Monitor

Taba bombing shows Sinai terrorists won’t go quietly -- Avi Issacharoff, Times of Israel

Confusion on Counterterrorism -- Paul Pillar, National Interest

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