Civil War: North Korea's Modern Judicial System

They make people believe in things aren’t real just like King Jong Un does to his population. An example in George Orwell book was that 2+2=5, Orwell stated (1949) “Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows” (page 81). This shows how much the government controls you and how they can manipulate the way people think. Just like 1984, North Korea makes the citizens believe things are true when they are clearly to anybody else in the world.The government is very careful with what they let in and out of the

It’s easy to imagine that the Holocaust is behind us and that the Earth is moving towards a bright future. However, in many countries around the world, people are still being treated as less than human beings! North Korea is one of these countries, but many people do not understand what is happening there. In fact, North Korea is currently quite different than many other modern societies largely because of its immensely restricted human rights.

Most people live a life without freedom; it could be because of religion, government, family, or authoritative power. Unfortunately, some people live without freedom to an extent in which they have no true thoughts for themselves. Whether it's through the leading powers of their country or by the process of being brainwashed, certain people live their lives mainly for the superior ambitions of their leaders. In North Korea, the citizens, since birth, are meant to honour Kim Jong Un and all his ideals. Similarly, in George Orwell's 1984, Big Brother and the party are the destruction of souls. As analyzed in Mailto Href and Leela Jacintos “The Country Where Big Brother is watching”, North Korea is a replay of George Orwell's 1984 in many ways.

Having parents who were anti-communists, Christian, relatives of Koreans, anyone who tried to escape to South Korea were taken into these punishment camps. The third stage of genocide is dehumanization. Kim Il-Sung viewed prisoners as both slaves and western animals. Their punishment was to be hung from a hook and suspended above a fire. Murders by being shot on sticks or poles; many killed for no reason. The fourth stage is organization. Separating each group of the loyal and anti-communists were a task. Women were taken as well as their children. “Targeted groups protected under the Genocide Convention include the half-Chinese babies of North Korean women forcibly repatriated by China” (Park, World Affairs). Because North Korea is bordered by the southern part of China, it was very easy for China to assist in the “mass

Kim has used nearly all of the income of money on nuclear weapons and other testings of the sort. In the article by world affairs journal, they say that,” There is unparalleled humanitarian and human rights emergency unfolding in the country every day.” Because of all the weapons testing this causes a lack of money for citizens allowing for thousands of people to starve to death all around. This genocide isn’t primarily targeted towards any one group but is instead depriving people of their basic rights. They are getting tortured, killed in masses, and having their freedoms ripped away. In an article by hir.harvard.edu they said that,” Hundereds of thousands of North Koreans have fled to China to survive. The majority are women, 80 percent of whom are sex-trafficked or sold into forced marriages.” An example of having freedoms ripped away would be the camps set up in North Korea. Christians and other people of religion are not allowed to pray anymore and people get tortured to death. The laws are so strict that even if you minorly step out of line you could get killed. An article entitled “Genocide in North Korea” states that North Korean refugees who flee to China carry a knife, because they would rather kill themselves then get caught by the

The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, also known as North Korea, has always had a history of imprisoning people that disagree with the governments policies, or for “disrespecting” the countries leaders, but these prisons are not just any prisons, they are prison camps, which function similarly to Nazi Concentration Camps.

The country of North Korea has long been under the watchful eye of not only the United States but also the United Nations for many years over concerns of it nuclear weapons program but now, they are being looked at for an entirely different reason. Recent reports about the inhuman treatment of an estimated 200,000 North Korean citizens in the countries six political prison camps are been closely looked at. These reports show the mistreatment, starvation, and even unlawful killing of North Korean citizens from everything from owning a Bible to watching soap operas.

Kim Jong Un’s iron fist extends to all domains of the North Korean life. In the digital realm, the restricted intranet serves as a propaganda echo chamber, where only a select few get access to the universal internet that we all use all use every day, however most of these individuals are merely part of a hacking elite look for expanding the military capabilities on North Korea via the digital battlefront. In the social world, a citizen's social class will determine their fate through their education and job opportunities, ensuring only the most loyal of citizens will be able to sustain a well providing job, but no matter what job is at stake, it all must serve the wishes of the Kim Regime. The power of the Kim Regime extends outwards into dozens of outside countries, where laborers are forced to work indefinitely in cruel conditions, however recent moves by the Trump administration may put change North Korea’s ability to exploit the labor. In addition to immense human rights violations of the state-sponsored labor, nothing quite compares to the Nazi-esque labor camps where any citizen will get sent to if they for even the most minor of criticisms of the government. Finally, North Korea continuously creates

According to senior editor Peter Weber of the political The Week magazine, “North Korea isn’t Nazi Germany--in some ways, it’s worse.” In this column Weber points out a 36 page report and its 373 page addendum report conducted by retired Australian judge Michael Kirby of the United Nations that revealed grisly details about the human rights abuses occurring in North Korea. The report was based on testimonies from witnesses and former inmates who had spent time in one of the encampments and who luckily made it out alive. Pyongyang 14 is one of the many camps that Kim Jong-un has in place to exterminate, murder, enslave, torture, and starve his people as the report notes. In addition, there are also forced abortions and other sexual violence that take place in this inhumane setting. North Korea forbids that their citizens know about life outside of the country, so if they attempt to do so there will be room for them in one of the prison camps since Jong-un is expanding their capacity. Something as little as watching a soap opera can land a North Korean in one of these camps, that is if they are not killed right away. For example, 10 people in the country were executed last year by firing squad when upper echelons in the North Korean hierarchy found out that they were watching “foreign” soap operas (Ryall). It is beyond belief that one’s life can be taken for something of such small magnitude. In Weber’s column he describes an interview Kirby had with a one-time prisoner at

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

Not saying that the government of North Korea may not be trying to kill off an entire race of people, but they are in a similar way killing for reasons people should not even put in jail for, like not supporting their government. While the Germans had massive ovens that they would burn people to death in, North Korea is a little less harsh in that manner. If a person stands up against the North Korean government they will be sentenced to a life in a forced labor camp. Not only will the person be sentenced to life in a camp most of the time their close family will also be forced to rot in the camps for their families wrong doings. Most of the time for political reasons like this people will get sent to the “political” forced labor camps which are 14, 15, 16, and 25. On average these camps hold 80,000 to 120,000 prisoners (Brooks, 1). In recent trends, these numbers have been falling for the political camps, the locals were forced to believe that it was because of a new camp opening and they were in the middle of transferring people to the new camps. The pictures taken from satellite proves this wrong. From the looks of the pictures a person can see giant mounds and piles of dead bodies just laying there without graves. What are they killing for? Most of these people are just in these camps just for the shear fact that one of their family member stood up for their rights and what they believe is right. Not only are the guards

South Korea Human Rights Ambassador Lee Jong-hoon said, “the possible genocide extends to three groups: the so-called “hostile class” (which is the lowest class in the North Korean caste system), those who are adherents of religions - particularly Christianity - and those who are not ethnically North Korean.” (Stanek) North Korea has and is still committing genocide against people of a racial minority, religious minority, political minority and national groups. After Kim Il-sung became the leader of North Korea, the country became known as the “worst violator of religious freedom in the world.” Hundreds of thousands of Christians were murdered by the regime and many still remain in camps today. Open Doors USA have reported that nearly 200,000 North Korean citizens are being held in political prison camps and about 50,000 of them are Christian. Women are treated terribly in North Korea if they don’t agree with the regime. If they have fled into China they could’ve been forced into prostitution or marriage. China would sometimes return the women, even if they are married to a Chinese citizen, and they were sent to concentration camps or they were to be executed. North Korea is so focused on preventing other national/racial groups from becoming a part of the North Korean population, that if women become impregnated by non-North Korean men they were forced into having abortions. One-third of the people held in the concentration camps is children. (Park, Policy Blog) Although the North Korean constitution allows freedom of speech and press, anyone who speaks against the government is sent to a camp. (Beecroft) “Previous United Nations reports have talked about the nine patterns of human rights violations, one violation is the discrimination particularly targeting women, children, people

Although Kim Jong Il’s government signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, reports had surfaced that they continued with the nuclear program. In 2003, North Korea withdrew from the treaty and openly resumed its nuclear research. As stated earlier, North Korea continues to shroud itself in secrecy in order to keep its strengths a secret from their so called ‘enemies’. The government upholds the aforementioned restrictions to keep their secrets from leaking out, and to keep the citizens ignorant to the outside world. Authorities have been known to deal out cruel and inhuman punishments to those who are found to have broken the ‘rules’. A North Korean escapee, Park Yeonmi, recounts from her childhood that her best friend’s mother was sentenced to be executed, Her crime was having watched South Korean films and lending the DVDs to friends. Her punishment in this most paranoid of dictatorships, was death by firing squad. The misfortune didn’t stop for Yeonmi however, as her father was arrested years later and was taken to a ‘re-education’ camp and given a 17-year sentence. She recalls his state during a visit, ‘He was beaten. Guards placed sticks between his fingers and crunched them together. He was made to sit in excruciating stress positions for interminable periods. Prisoners were

North Korea appears on the international stage as a country existing beyond the world we all know. It isolates its citizens from the rest of international community and does not obey any rules determined by international law, but requires respect and recognition. Moreover, North Korea is one of the countries that remains aggressive towards its neighbors and applies various terrorist techniques, i.e. illegal contraband, political terror and mass abductions of other countries’ citizens in its foreign policy. The reasons for which the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) behaves so unpredictably and irrationally are diversified. First of all, the DPRK as a country is managed very irrationally – regimes of Kim Il-sung and

North Korean citizens are the most oppressed people in the world. The people there have no basic radio communications, they are blocked from most internet and television and most foreign journalists are not allowed in the country. The government is also technically not a communist country, it is in fact a