Why was Drudge surprised?

"Shock" was the lead-in to the Drudge headline link to this news story about infanticide in North Korea. Why is this news a surprise? For a materialist/evolutionist, weeding out the weak is a mechanism of the great evolutionary "plan" being worked out over the eons. To be a consistent evolutionist, this would be a good thing.

On the other hand, there was Corrie tenBoom. After the Nazis invaded Holland in 1940, Miss tenBoom was ostracized by the Nazi occupiers for befriending disabled children and helping them learn, in their simple way, the love that God has for them. Her God requires consideration for the helpless... in fact, the prophets pronounced judgment for lack of it. Conversely, in the Nazi way of thinking, this was useless activity wasted on worthless people. See a pattern here?

What journalist/poet Steve Turner wrote in his poem "Chance" is fitting here:

Chance

If chance be
the Father of all flesh,
disaster is his rainbow in the sky,
and when you hear

State of Emergency!
Sniper Kills Ten!
Troops on Rampage!
Whites go Looting!
Bomb Blasts School!

It is but the sound of man
worshipping his maker.

Steve Turner,
from Up To Date (London: Hodder & Stoughton)