Human rights violations in North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea are in a category of their own because there is no correspondence to the human rights enjoyed by those in the democratic world. Even though it is enshrined into the country's constitution the rights are not being enforced by the government . In February 2014, the United Nations released a 400 page report outlining a record of first-hand testimonies with documented unspeakable atrocities" committed by the country. The Democratic People's Republic of North Korea is having difficulty advancing into the modern world due to censorship strictly imposed by the government, harsh political prisons, and a history of massive famine. The North Korean government …show more content…
The New York Times has declared North Korea as the world's most oppressed nation. North Korean journalists all belong to the ruling party and they use their position to make their supreme leader Kim Jong-un seem like more than he actually is. Similarly, the internet is restricted to only regime elites and prestigious university students. North Korea has created its own online server called the intranet which is again only available to selected individuals. The North Korean government has implemented strict rules like getting permission from government authorities and registering your computer with the police in order to legally have access to the internet. North Korea's amount of internet access is so low that the country only has 1,024 IP addresses for 25 million people whereas the United States has billions of IP addresses for 316 million people. Internet use in North Korea is not good for the public because most of the public is not aware of it. It is merely used as a government tool for propaganda. The North Korean government ensures that the citizens of the country are monitored by an iron curtain. Individuals living in the country do not have the ability to learn about other nations or accumulate knowledge from another …show more content…
North Korea is still living in the past still having concentration camps with around 120,000 people secluded in horrid conditions. Most of these individuals are in prison camps for merely watching soap operas, finding food to sustain their families, crossing the border to escape to China, or simply having family members that were suspectful to the regime. Not only convicts but families are sent to prisons without a trial on the basis of supposedly committing anti-revolutionary activities. North Korean concentration camps have survived for twice as long as the Nazi concentration camps. Political prison camps are not a solution for crimes committed against the government whose expectations are unrealistic in the 21st century. A country exhibiting such unnatural treatment in the 21st century should be stopped after learning from the catasphrope outcomes from similar treatments during Hitler's reign in concentration camps in Germany. The inmate population in North Korea's concentration camps has depleted due to mass starvation, forced labour, executions, rape and torture. Several United Nations investors believe that Kim Jung Un should face international justice after subjecting its citizens for allowing such systematic torture. Prisoners in the camps
Political freedoms of the people are continuously violating them with unfair laws, which are just for show and discrimination according to class by the dictator Kim Jong-Un. In North Korea, the laws are for show, but the people experiencing the laws know the truth and that they have no rights. According to the “The Problems of Human Rights in North Korea,” “In North Korea, the laws are for show, and the people live outside the protection of the law. The Constitution of North Korea guarantees democratic freedoms such as the freedoms of speech,
North Koreas government uses its power to control information and restrict independent thought and freedom. The BBC News mentions, “North Koreas economic hardships or famines are not reported to the domestic audience” (North Korea’s Tightly Controlled Media). This shows how the government in North Korea uses their power to keep the inhabitants of the country blind to issues that would cause worry amongst them. The BBC News author later on mentions that rather than inform its citizens on real life issues occurring, they are informed of technological advances developed by their leaders’ revolutionary thinking. By doing this the North Korean government keeps the people blind and ignorant to complicated
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.
The citizens of North Korea have little if any rights. They are not allowed to speak their opinions especially about the government. If they speak ill of the government they will be killed. As well as no freedom of speech nearly all property belongs to the state. A modern independent judicial system does not exist due to the ways their dictatorship is ruled. They have no Religious freedom at all, they must practice the religion that their dictator says.
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.
Many countries are against what is being done in North Korea prison camps (gulags) and sympathize with the victims, because it is a crime against humanity. After watching an interview of Shin Dong-hyuk with Anderson Cooper on 60 Minutes, I found the testimony of the ex-prisoner appalling yet intriguing. It made me question, how can an entire country get away with heinous crimes against humanity for this long? The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea continues to be defiant to international law by committing a crime against humanity through means of imprisonment of the wrongly accused, imprisonment without a fair public trial, child labor, and cruel
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
Human Rights: The UN General Assembly reports that human rights in north korea are violated during his leadership. Since his regime focuses on development of nuclear weapon, the North Korean citizen left with poor of basic need of life. North Korea is suffering and some of them try to escape to South Korea. This Human Rights violations may leads to human trafficking against North Korean people in South Korea or any place in the world.
North Korea does not have a modern judicial system and do not have religious freedom. North Korea had a civil war and had to split it state into different parts along the 38th parallel. The reason why they had a civil war was because the North Korean forced the South Korean’s people to fight in North Korea wars; the Kim dynasty rules over North Korea with absolute power, and despotic. The modern genocidal conflict in North Korea is similar to the Holocaust because it employs dehumanization, extermination, and denial.
For thousands of years, humans have been struggling to maintain a utopic society. However, there have been many conflicts of humanity and universal peace. During the genesis of many nations, numerous people fought and sweated blood to achieve their natural human rights. For instance, United States of America, within the 200 years, went through many significant historical events, shaping it into a nation of reserved civil rights for all people. Today, North Korea may be noticeably the most rights-deprived nation in the world. Although its government may not admit, many North Korean people are crying and dying of endless and hopeless poverty and abuse.
One human right North Korea is violating is Human Right #9, No unfair detainment. "No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile." In the article "North Korea Like Father, Like Son?" It states "Someone caught watching a Jackie Chan movie, for example could get up to six months in a labor camp." (Junior Scholastic, 2012) This text shows that North Korea is violating human right #9 because
Most have heard of North Korea. With a shroud of secrecy over internal and external matters and a dictatorial reign opposed to most outside nations, it is viewed as the most isolated country in the world. It is for this precise reason that we have chosen North Korea as our point of focus. Information on this country are unreliable and scarce, but if enough is pieced together then a closer picture of today’s most famous totalitarian regime will start to form.
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
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'.