Democratic People In North Korea

There are daily examples of discrimination and oppression throughout the world, but one of the most substantial examples is in North Korea. North Korea is an Asian country ruled by a totalitarian dictatorship, although it calls itself a socialist state. The Jong family has ruled North Korea for three generations since the Korean War. The country is said to be a cult as the country’s citizens are forced to worship the countries leaders, discouraged from holding religion and often punished from doing so, and are not allowed to leave the country. Additionally, in North Korea there are no human rights. People are killed or sent to labor camps for even the smallest infractions. North Korea remains one of the most repressive authority’s states on the world. A 2014 United Nations Commission of Inquiry (COI) report on human rights in North Korea stated that systematic, widespread, and gross human rights violations committed by the government included murder, enslavement, torture, imprisonment, rape, forced abortion, and other sexual violence, and constituted crimes against humanity (McCurry,2017). Under international pressure North Korea always denies these allegations, but through defectors and satellite images the evidence is clear. Time and time again North Korea has violated human rights. North Korea is a superior example of oppression and discrimination because of the countries laws and judicial system, and the treatment of North Korean citizens.

North Korea more than likely is the most abusive administration on Earth. Moreover human rights screens are by and large banned from the nation, as are radio correspondences amongst citizens and outsiders. A few journalists and human rights screens have been fruitful in revealing insights about the hidden government's arrangements.

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.

This paper will delve into the little known aspects of North Korea. Hopefully, a better understanding of the country’s characteristics can benefit both the neighboring

Life in North Korea’s high contrast with life in the United States is marked by nonexistent personal freedoms and harsh punishments. One example of restricted freedom in shown in their leader, Kim Jong-un. He, who they address as Dear Leader, is treated like

North Korea is a totalitarianism that is considered the strictest in the world. Among other things, North Korea has been selected as the nastiest in the world when it comes to press freedom. All the media in North Korea are controlled by the regime and top managers sitting on important party posts. For example, in every home in North Korea there is a radio fit in the wall. The radio cannot be turned off and out of it, it sends out North Korea propaganda.

The country of Korea has been in turmoil for centuries and was founded on its turmoil of being unified and separated. Several objects stand in the way of them being unified once more the DPRK prefers communism while the ROK prefers Democracy both sides want to be united but can’t due to different morals, beliefs, and political views. And the history of Korea hasn’t always been pleasant due to wars and the attempted colonization of Korea by the Japanese.

The government claims that citizens get the full amount of basic rights and claim that DPRK has the best rights in the world ( Federal Research Division, 172-175). Contrary to what they said, the DPRK is one of the most repressive governments on the face of the earth. Their constitution claims that they get freedom of religion, speech, press, and more ( 175-176). The North Korean government instead ignores every single word in their own constitution (United Nations Human Rights Council 3). The Supreme People’s Assembly meets only once a year ( Federal Research Division, 175-176). The current state of modern North Korea is based off the policy of aggression, fear, and governmental brainwashing. (Daily Mail Reporter). North Korean citizens can and will be placed in a labor camp if they do anything that goes against the regime (“North Korea”). Not only can North Korean citizens get placed in a labor camp for going against the regime, but foreigners can and will be placed in a labor camp for committing that crime, too (David Brunnstrom). In the North, the government boasts about many of their so-called achievements and superiority over the others. Their media constantly shows how plentiful and how powerful the country is (“Kim Jong Un's New Year Address”). Videos and images of industry, food, technology, and stocked stores picture the country as a perfect

North Korea’s regime has a tight grip on its citizens. The surveillance system is oppressive as well an invasion to the citizen’s human rights. But in North Korea the words “human rights” don’t exist, because the regime has such a harsh oppressive grip on them. There’s a stark contrast between the oppressive grip of North Korea and their bordering neighbor of South Korea because of their prison camps that are installed into their society. In comparison, North Korea is becoming eerily similar to the Soviet Union during Stalin’s reign.

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.

At the onset of the Cold War, between the United States and the Soviet Union, the people of Korea could not have foreseen the critical role their relatively small nation would play in world affairs over proceeding generations. The separation and subsequent rise of the North Korean state has given rise to, what is widely considered the most oppressive regime in modern history. This regime, unfortunately, has managed to gain control of some of the most destructive weaponry known to humanity. The people of North Korea are captives to the imaginations of its dictatorial leadership and unless the great efforts for reform receive pressure from without or within,

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

The common citizens in North Korea often starve to death due to the lack of imported food that the government has complete control over. Kim Jong un and other people in the government with great authority are fed like kings while the people are struggling to get by. In addition, the North Koreans are taught that Americans are grimy wolves and young children practice throwing grenades at “American

The Democratic People’s Republic of North Korea is known for being secluded from the remainder of the world. Communism created the country that North Korea is today as it was sponsored to become a country by another communist country. Nuclear weapons acquired by the country have caused great tension between North Korea and the rest of the world. North Korea is one of the world’s most secretive nations. The Democratic People’s Republic of North Korea is almost completely secluded from the outside world and is sometimes referred to as a Hermit Kingdom.

State media sources are tightly controlled so as to prevent the North Korean public from accessing any information that does not come from the country's strict government bureau of information, and this means that many North Koreans are grossly misinformed about the position of North Korea in the world and believe, for example, that their meagre lifestyles are preferable to the terrible conditions in other countries. Visitors to North Korea routinely report tight levels of control, with mobile phones confiscated for the duration of the visit and all movement tracked by an official government-supplied 'tourist guide'.