At The Age Of 7, I Witnessed My First Public Execution.

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.

North Korea had experienced a terrible famine; people were stealing and selling crops for their own gain. Many North Koreans crossed or tried to cross into China to go to South Korea. Although the famine in North Korea is over, the country is still at risk of experiencing famine again. In chapters 16

The starvations of the people are caused by the government doing nothing to help its people. About millions of people die every year due to starvation under Kim-Jong Un’s ruling. Korea’s education programs, films, news, and propaganda are controlled by the government, so the people only see and hear what the leader wants to them to know. The citizens of North Korea have little or no say about who is elected to rule, just like the dystopian novels, Legend and Surviving Antarctica. The reason Kim-Jong Un became leader of North Korea was because of his father’s death. The country and the novels are meant to show the readers how powerful and corrupted the government is becoming. The authors are trying to warn the readers that the government is becoming more and more powerful, and if we don’t figure out a way to deal with it now, then we will have a future just like the dystopian

Kim Il-sung had ultimate control over his people as he had the military to enforce his laws. If a citizen dared to speak up against the government, he and his family would be thrown into horrendous prisons for the next three generations. What makes North Korea different than Rwanda and Haiti is that poverty there was a normal part of life. Kim Il-sung cut off communication with the outside world. He controlled television and radio services to ensure that his people were ignorant that their lives were much worse than the rest of the world. Similar to Haiti, North Koreans were faced with hunger and a lack of basic necessities to live comfortably. A rigid system in North Korea made it impossible for families of lower class to improve their status because of tainted family history. Unlike Haiti’s vacillating government, North Korea was dominated by totalitarianism. North Koreans were taught to believe that they lived in the best place on earth, when in reality, they lived in poverty and domination. Their perception of their lives was caused by the culture that Kim Il-sung created. He instilled loyalty using media, force, and religious practices. This is similar to Rwanda because the Hutus and Tutsis were also taught to believe in the ethnic divisions hat separated them through school systems, religion, and

The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, better known as North Korea, is a country in east Asia. North Korea officially describes itself as a socialist state, but it is widely recognized as a dictatorship. Kim ll-sung is the first supreme leader of North Korea, and the grandfather of the current leader, Kim Jong Un. Under the regime of the Kims, North Korea isolated itself away from the rest of the world. It is a perfect archetype of a “closed society”. Since the beginning of the rule of the Kims, the condition in North Korea have worsened, where citizens have little to no civil rights.

“Three Generations Of Punishment”, a 60 Minutes interview conducted by Anderson Cooper, is a thought provoking look inside North Korea’s political work camps. In this interview, we speak to Shin Dong-hyuk, former resident, and escapee of one of said concentration camps, Camp 14. One hundred and fifty thousand people inhabit Camp 14, which lies fifty miles outside of the city of Pyongyang. This camp, as well as many others, follow the ‘Three Generations of Punishment’ policy institutionalized by former leader of North Korea, Kim Il-Sung. This law decrees that if someone commits a political wrongdoing, he, and the two generations after him, will live in work camps for their whole lives as a form of punishment. Kim Il-Sung put this system

The cruel and unruly torture that is done to the prisoners in North Korean concentration camps, are a reminder of the horrors that occurred during the holocaust by the Nazis and other Axis power. In these North Korean prison camps many prisoners die because of mistreatment, and lack of supplies; The United States and South Korea have estimated around 200,000 people imprisoned within many of these North Korean concentration camps. There is also an estimated 400,000 people who have died in these concentration camps from torture, starvation, and execution. North Korea’s Regime which controls all governmental aspects of North Korea created concentration camps for political prisoners and the family member of the political prisoners who have

By the 1980’s North Korea was in a state of degradation, until Russia collapsed in 1991 and the socialist state ceased to function. In 1994, with all these issues, Kim Il-sung died. Kim Jong-Il inherited a country on the brink of disaster, in reaction, Jong-Il instituted a policy that gave military and elite families even more privilege hoping to tighten loyalty from the top then trickle it down to the lower tiers. However, due to the economic situation under Il-sung, Jong-Il’s attempt to pacify loyalist met opposition from a severe famine in the mid to late 1990s. During this period, 5% of the population died of starvation, with the rest of the population starving to the point an entire generation’s growth was stunted. Economic mismanagement affected the military by lowering the height at weight requirement for soldiers. At its peak, the famine caused many North Koreans to defect to other countries. “In Barbara Demick’s book “Nothing to Envy”, a North Korean doctor tells of how even she became desperately hungry. After fleeing to China, she discovered a bowl of food left out for a dog. Upon examining the white rice and generous chunks of meat, she concluded that “dogs in China ate better than doctors in North Korea.”” (History of North

North Korea is known worldwide as “The Hermit Country”, for being extremely reserved and closed off to the rest of the world. The country is currently under the complete dictatorship of Kim Jong Un, descendent of the Kim Dynasty, a three generation linage of powerful and influential leaders of North Korea. Because the country is so reserved and isolated only a number of outsiders are allowed in the country itself. The few that are allowed are only shown a staged view of the county’s normalcy and surpluses. Behind this painted picture lies the fact that most of North Korea’s citizens are living under extreme and inhumane conditions; citizens suffering from famine, manipulation, and many repressed forms of freedom.

North Korea is a dangerous place to live, where you aren't allowed to leave. In North Korea the citizens are living in malnourishment, poverty and living under a totalitarian dictatorship lead by Kim Jung Un. I am very interested about North Korea Because we don't know a lot about North Korea. North Korea does not release hardly any information about themselves to other nations, which i think makes them an interesting topic to research. I already knew a little bit about North Korea because of news coverage but I didn't know everything that I learned after researching them more in depth. I knew that North Korea had some of the worth human

Escaping North Korea is the hardest challenge to overcome due to the harsh conditions people live in. This piece of evidence from the article “Escaping North Korea” supports the topic.“But this killing lodged in her mind. Yeonmi watched in horror as the woman she knew was lined up alongside eight other prisoners and her sentence was read out.” “As the executioners raised their weapons, Yeonmi covered her face. But she looked up again, just in time to see an explosion of blood and the woman’s body crumple to the ground.”First of all children are invited to watch terrible executions. This would give children unforgetable memories. Secondly the people in the city are forced to live in poor houses without working water. In the text Yeomni recalls “ they were forced to move from a comfortable house in Hyesan to a minuscule apartment.”

Estimates made by the world food program of the United Nations claimed that 6 million out of the total population of 25 million North Koreans are malnourished and face hunger. The resulting consequences are horrific. Witnesses from different areas in the country have reported acts of cannibalism.

Hyeonseo Lee gave a presentation on TED Talk entitled, “My Escape from North Korea”, summarizing about her life in North Korea. She was born and raised there and sing patriotic songs. All the history books told her that North Korea was the best country in the world. As she got older, a famine struck North Korea in the mid-1990’s. Although, she never experienced starvation, she witnessed the events first hand. This was the pushing point for Hyeonseo, who decided to leave North Korea. Due to China and North Korea’s stringent border policies and the Chinese government immigration policy, the life of a North Korean refugee is challenging and extremely risky. They risk being deported back to the very country that they escaped from. There are reports and stories about the violation of human rights and labor camps in North Korea. She would live in China for ten years before moving to South Korea. Hyeonseo was forced to help her family escape from North Korea. The regime caught Hyeonseo for sending money to her family. Lee’s family to be relocated by the order of the North Korean government. She needed to smuggle them through China to a South Korean embassy in Laos. Unfortunately, Hyeonseo Lee’s story won’t be the last we hear about the abysmal conditions in North Korea. There are, potentially millions more, stories detailing the humanitarian disaster in the country and we must take steps to prepare for the eventual collapse of the country.

Just imagine, being in a world where everyone is controlled and taught to believe that there life is perfect. That is a reality for the citizens in North Korea.. At a young age the children in North Korea are taught and controlled to believe that they way they live is perfect, but in reality we all know that it is quite the opposite. Shannon L. Alder, a popular writer, perfectly described this by stating, “your perspective on life comes from the cage you were held captive in” (https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1391130.Shannon_L_Alder). Alder is an inspirational writer that wrote over 100 novels, two of her best being 300 Questions To Ask Your Parents and 300 Questions LDS Couples Should Ask Before Marriage. Her writings are mainly focused around celebrating uniqueness and freeing oneself, so that they can live life to the fullest. This quote directly explains the life in North Korea, and how helpless the North Korean population is to the dictatorship. This can be explained in three main reasons through the novel, The Girl With Seven Names, and the short story, Total Control in North Korea. The first reason is how the government controls the whole population in North Korea. Secondly, how this quote directly relates to North Korea through a perspective aspect of our perspective on North Korea versus the perspective of a normal North Korean citizen. Finally, the third main