The difference between China's democides/labor camps/external aggression and North Korea's democides/labor camps/external aggression is largely that China got rich doing it and North Korea got poor.  (Well, "rich", at any rate.  About 10% of China is a fast growing dynamic economy which has eventual aspirations of being a world power -- and the other 90% lives in grinding poverty.)<p>Anyhow, since China is rich, it is considered sort of impolite to say "China, please stop committing genocide" or "Hey, China, working people to death in your laogai camps is sort of uncool."  (This is sort of related to how it was tres gauche to mention that Soviet Russia was a brutal, genocidal dictatorship and how a huge portion of the American and European intelligensia supported that model and wanted it for their own countries.  Which is itself related to it earlier being quite undiplomatic to talk about what the Austrian chap was doing in addition to his economic reforms.)<p>Be that as it may, reluctance to confront evil in China should not lead to reluctance to confront evil in North Korea.