Assassination by poison or by drone: which is worse? 

I completely agree that the brutal assassination conducted by North Korean government operatives and other reprehensible acts carried out by this barbarian regime deserve the strongest condemnation and severe punishment by the international community. There is no justification for such criminal activity. 
The problem is that North Korea is in good company. It is perhaps commendable that US agencies use far more technologically advanced assassination methods, such as the weaponised drones so skilfully employed by President Obama over the past eight years, and more recently by President Trump. 
Of course this is still a technology in development, so the killing of children and other innocent civilians – in operations such as the US Navy Seals raid in Yemen on January 29 – can be fully excused. Yet this is only a minor example of the many lethal acts of force being perpetrated regularly and with total impunity by all the major powers. 
The United States maintains that the “global bill of rights” imposes no rights obligations on American military forces when they operate abroad, rejecting an interpretation by the United Nations. I strongly suspect that if North Korea (or Iran) claimed similar impunity, then the editorial writers of major newspapers would go apoplectic with condemnation.
Przemo Kranz