Trump: ‘The Korean Miracle Extends Exactly as Far as the Free Nations Advanced in 1953’

RUSH TRANSCRIPT:
TRUMP: "The Korean miracle extends exactly as far as the armies of free nations advanced in 1953. 25 miles to the north, there it stops. It all comes to an end. Dead stop. The flourishing ends, and the prison state of North Korea sadly begins. Workers in North Korea labor grueling hours in unbearable conditions for almost no pay. Recently the entire working population was ordered to work for 70 days straight, or else pay for a day of rest. Families live in homes without plumbing, and fewer than half have electricity. Parents bribe teachers in hopes of saving their sons and daughters from forced labor. More than a million north Koreans died of if a mean in the 1990s, and more continued to die of hungry today. Among children under the age of 5, nearly 30% are afflicted by stunted growth due to malnutrition, and yet, in 2012 and 2013 the regime spent an estimated $200 million or almost half the money that it allocated to improve living standards for its people to instead build even more monuments, towers, and statues to glorify its dictators. The perceived loyalty to a twisted regime. Far from valuing its people as equal citizens, this cruel dictatorship measures them, scores them, and ranks them based on the most arbitrary indications of their allegiance to the state. Those who score the highest in loyalty may live in the capital city. Those who score the lowest starve. A small infraction by one citizen, subpoena as accidentally stage a picture of the tyrant printed in a discarded newspaper can wreck the social credit rank of his entire family for many decades. An estimated 100,000 north Koreans suffer in prisons, enduring torture, starvation, rape, on a constant basis."