American Detainee Situation On The Dprk

North Korea’s ruler, Kim Jong-un, made North Korea a harsh and brutal place to live. He has made many rules for North Korea, but if someone doesn’t follow they capture them, the government officials/ agents put a board behind you and make you sit down. If they pushed on you, you would collapse, and you would hear your kneecaps

North Korea is a Totalitarian country that often uses many different fear tactics to control their citizens. “ Her brother who was arrested in China in 1994 for attempting to “defect” from the DPRK... As an example to others against committing similar “anti-state” offenses, he was tied to the back of a truck which took him to their hometown, Musan.”(North Korean control #3 doc A) Someone's brother was arrested in China for trying to defect from North Korea, and as an example, he was dragged around by a truck to show people not to try and escape. This shows that North Korea wanted to impose fear on their citizens, so they wouldn’t try to leave. “The woman she knew was lined up alongside eight other prisoners... her crime was having watched South

Reading Escape from Camp 14, provided me with a lot of thought provoking insight into some of the most extreme struggles of those living under a dictatorship, who are being denied of basic human rights. This also illustrates how propaganda is used to dispel the seriousness of the situation against North Korea, and to keep the citizens predominantly complacent.

North Korea’s prison camps are extremely horrifying. A decade later after World War l, North Korea established its own system of prison camps (Szoldra). As same as concentration camps, prisoners were inhumanly punished. Since then, prison conditions in North Korea are horrendous and not tolerated by prisoners as well as their family members and society. North Korea’s prison systems not only frightened the prisoners, but the society as well. Because of the issues generated by North Korea’s horrifying prison conditions have not only been serious problems in history but also today, this issue is being resolve by the collaboration of society.

revealed frightening similarities in the structure and nature of the camps to those of North Korean

Over 400,000 North Korean citizens have died from the torture of concentration camps, and more than 200,000 are still being held there to this day. Every day, North Korean prisoners are being beaten and abused, only a few of the many unthinkable tortures inflicted on them. William Golding, author of Lord of the Flies, believes that the defects of society can be traced back to the defects of human nature. However, in contrast to Golding’s statement, countries like North Korea demonstrate that the torture in concentration camps can be traced back to defects in the government, depending on the circumstance.

The U.S.S. Pueblo incident happened January 23, 1968 when North Korea suspected the United States of spying. They captured the ship and the crew from the Sea of Japan and then months later, Johnson announces the slowing of the bombings taking place in Vietnam. I think there is a correlation between these two events. Johnson believed that the reason why North Korea was keeping the soldiers captive was because the threat they felt as alliances with North Vietnam. They knew that the US military was continuously bombing Vietnamese and the idea of having captives gave the illusion of power. Less than a year later on December 22, the captives were freed but North Korea kept the U.S.S. Pueblo. While they still had the captives, Martin Luther King JR was assassinated by James Earl Ray in Memphis Tennessee and two months later,

When Simmons first arrived in North Korea she stated that “things went North Korea immediately,” (139) giving the reader an improved understanding of Simmons views on the country. Simmons experiences from her trip proved these notions wrong, and this made Simmons aware that she needed to change her notions. Once she was aware of this, she showed personal growth, by how she was able to alter her notions to fit with these new experiences. Coming into North Korea she never gave the country a chance to change her views, until forced to. What she first saw didn’t help North Korea’s case, “children are assigned their activity or skill,” forced into an “extracurricular-activity jail,” (141) and have no power to change it.

Imagine life on the brink of death and being completely isolated from the outside world. Your surroundings are filled with the scent of rotting corpse and the image of walking skeletons with deformities due to scarce supply of food and countless beatings, torture, and even executions. What I am describing here is the reality for the prisoners in the concentration camps of North Korea. This is a clear violation of the UN Declaration of Human Rights because these prisoners are subjugated under these harsh treatments by the government of North Korea. One living example of the brutal treatment endured in these camps is about a survivor of the camps whose name is Shin Dong-hyuk.

In a gripping tale of the horrors that take place in the labor camps of North Korea, Escape from Camp 14 by Blaine Harden retells Shin Dong-hyuk's life in Camp 14 and his miraculous escape. Unlike others who managed to escape North Korea, Shin is the first to have been born inside of one of the concentration camps. Since he grew up inside the camp, Shin was never exposed to any of the North Korean propaganda. The book follows Shin’s entire life up to the time of publication, starting with his time in the camp, then his escape, and finally his life after arriving in South Korea.

Hello! I am a PhD candidate from Department of History, Carnegie Mellon University. Since this spring, I have been working on my dissertation tracing the repatriation and identification of American soldiers missing in the Korean War. I am writing this letter to seek your support to my research by learning some stories during your trip to North Korea in 1994.

Only 22 hours ago, I had been serving the North Korean Kim Jong Un, sent on a secret mission to spy on the American government. I had been given false papers and passports as well as a satellite phone. Now, I lay here starved and sleep deprived, at the hands of my captors. The smell of the salty breeze brings back happy memories of my childhood, soon only to be drowned out by the footsteps of heavy(most likely armed) men. As the door creaks, I snap out of my daze, only to realize, I am in an interrogation facility.

Japan and the victims experience a dilemma with abduction issue for a long time. As for the abducted victims, they unjustly taken their human rights away. Abduction deprive their life, liberty, and property. The victims lost almost all right that they had have in Japan. It is obviously should consider to be violation of human rights. They must felt incredible apprehension of their fate and life. Also, some of the abductees who safely repatriated did not expect taking such a long time. The restriction about legal system between two nations makes this diplomatic issue complicated. Japan cannot force their legal force to North Korea and obviously Japan could not sue North Korea as violation of human rights. The nation also lost their legal protection system of citizens at the same time the abductees deprived their human rights. Another thing which is same about Sioux case, the victims are also deprived their future. They were forced to suffer from a lot of problems even after the issue

One alternative sometimes offered to the family is to allow the government to take the child and to deposit him or her into a government-run institution for the disabled. One former high-level official interviewed by the U.N. Commission testified that government officials would routinely visit families who had a disabled child and urge them to turn the child over to the state. A 2014 UN Commission of Inquiry found that abuses in North Korea were without parallel in the contemporary world. They include extermination, murder, enslavement, torture, imprisonment, rape, forced abortions, and other sexual violence. North Korea operates a series of secretive prison camps where perceived opponents of the government are sent to face torture and abuse, starvation rations, and forced labor. Fear of collective punishment is used to silence dissent. There is no independent media, functioning civil society, or religious freedom. In October, heavy pressure on North Korea at the UN General Assembly in New York and North Korea’s concern over the possibility of a referral to the International Criminal Court prompted a first-ever meeting between North Korean diplomats and Marzuki

Also, people there who break the law can be taken away to harsh labor camps. Finally, the government does not support or protect its people. To stay alive, Park’s father smuggled goods to support his family (Escape From North Korea). This act shows that the government does not support its citizens, therefore they had to do illegal actions to live and survive. The people of North Korea face many challenges and are treated cruelly.