Yeah because beating someone suspected of plotting to blow people up stems from the same rationale of beating a midget because they are impure. Brilliant!
(Neither is right, but one is much worse)
North Korea is nothing short of hell on earth. They test chem and bio weapons on their own people. They jail and torture the families of suspected dissidents. They starve their countrymen for the sake of their military. There have even been documented reports of the Kim Jung Il and his elite generals being fed fruit grown in orchards fertalized with the bodies of dead dissidents and prisoners. (No, really I'm not making that up...)
If you want to make a point about the US not doing things perfectly, fine. But lets not be retarded and think that any we are currently doing compares in any way to what goes on over there.