Though North Korea is putting on a “more friendly face to the world,” amid its participation in the games, the Kim regime continues deadly and widespread acts of persecution and murder.

This is the Korean Peninsula at night. The bottom, awash in light, is the free and democratic South. The North is in complete darkness save for a pinprick of light in Pyongyang. Keep the darkness in mind while watching the North's Olympic charm offensive pic.twitter.com/wcBQpfyrcu

— Marc Thiessen (@marcthiessen) February 11, 2018

Otto Warmbier unavailable for comment. pic.twitter.com/DC22GBcqvJ

— Jay Cost (@JayCostTWS) February 10, 2018

The New York Times has always admired autocratic regimes. I’m not being flippant. See: Hitler, Mussolini, Chavez, and now the Norks. Always positive profiles ... until the unpleasantness memory hole https://t.co/AsC5IRODyx

— Sacksonville (@JohnEkdahl) February 12, 2018

I feel bad for that dude when he gets home pic.twitter.com/qaiXp9w1ar

— Miiiikeyb 🦂 (@babyitsmb) February 12, 2018

This would be the first time that American journalists and pundits have whitewashed a horrific anti-American rogue regime amid a diplomatic push from lefty experts and NGOs in, like, 3 weeks. https://t.co/dkW1qfu5Si

— Omri Ceren (@omriceren) February 11, 2018

Pretending the North Korean cheerleaders are genuinely happy and not coerced into cheering by a totalitarian regime is like pretending American slaves were happy.

Which is also something Democrats did pic.twitter.com/dwR1PIkgWm

— (((Aaron Worthing))) (@AaronWorthing) February 12, 2018

This is quite good. https://t.co/ORkjgLESFj

— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) February 12, 2018