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The scary thing is @anneapplebaum wrote the same op/ed 15 years ago about North Korean concentration camps
“We shake our heads self-righteously, certain that if we'd been there, liberation would have come earlier -- all the while failing to see that the present is no different” 
“Later -- in 10 years, or in 60 -- it will surely turn out that quite a lot was known in 2004 about the camps of North Korea... And no one will be able to understand how it was possible that we knew of the existence of the gas chambers but failed to act.”
“As in the 1930s, there are explanations for the world’s lack of outrage. Newspaper editors are distracted by bigger, more immediate stories. Politicians and foreign policy “realists” would say there are more important issues we need to discuss with China: Business is business.”
