North Korean Prisons

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

In the “Protection of North Korean Escapees under International Law” article goes in detail of specific reasons why the number of escapees are increasing. One of the reason why there are so many escapees is the shortage of food and going back to the 1990s where they had a low food crisis from the heavy rain in 1995 and when the Soviet

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

The country of North Korea compares rather closely to the world in Ayn Rand’s Anthem. Both nations of people are very closed off from the community and the outside world. The citizens only know about what the government officials want them to know about. In North Korea everyone depends upon and worships their leader, Kim Jong Il, almost as though he is their god. They all only depend on what they classify as “we” and they rely only on that because they do not have access to anyone else or even know what it means to be an individual. In both the book and North Korea, the citizens are locked down and watched with a careful eye. Breaking the rules in Anthem would send you to the Uncharted Forest, which is very similar to what happens to those

North Koreans are sent to these camps if they commit a crime against the government or if they are related to someone who has committed a crime against the government. In fact, if a North Korean commits a political crime, up to three generations of their family can be punished for it as well! Up to a total of 120,000 people, the population of Abilene, have been estimated to be held in these horrendous prison camps in which citizens suffer beatings, are forced to work, and deal with the fact that up to quarter of the prisoners die each year. Their own end is just around the corner. The mass deaths may be caused by the fact that prisoners are starved. Because of minimal food, prisoners who are left alive look like walking skeletons. Once, a prisoner who managed to escape their camp was hunted down, dragged back to camp while tied to a truck, and executed for his crime. North Korean officials deny that these brutal camps exist. If these testimonies are true, it’s clear as to why North Korea wouldn’t want the world to know about their camps. Terrible actions comparable to Nazi concentration camps happen in brutal North Korean prison

Imagine yourself in a world where you have no rights. You have no freedom, no choices, and you come face to face with death everyday. Every year, thousands of people die in the horrible labor camps around the world. Citizens constantly deal with torture and abuse, while others face death, a force no one can ever beat, no matter how much they try. In the horrible labor camps in North Korea, every citizen, whether a child or an adult, are forced to work. In North Korea, thousands are faced with forced labor and many are dying because of it. First, people in North Korea are having their freedom of choice taken away. In addition to psychological torture, laborers are subjected to physical torture.

Prison camps in North Korea have been likened to Auschwitz and other Nazi concentration camps by survivors of the Holocaust (Anna Fifield). The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, commonly known as North Korea, is a Socialist Dictatorship that was split into the North and South after World War II. The USSR, after gaining control of North Korea, appointed Kim Il-sung as their leader in 1948. After the Korean war ended in 1953, North Korea started to transform into the nation that we are familiar with in today’s world. North Korea has been described by some human rights activist groups to be one of the biggest and worst modern violations of human rights ("OHCHR | North Korea"). The people there are restricted from leaving, most follow a strict

So, what we have learned is that North Korea is massively corrupt. North Korea is also a very poor country as well as a very destructive one. Everything there is monitored to the point when there is no privacy. It’s a big example of a mislead country. They not only have the nuclear power to cause mass devastation, but are currently testing out nuclear weapons and aren’t scared of causing acts of terrorism. They even use fear tactics on their own people. Now, compare North Korea to North America and you can see the differences. In conclusion, be glad that you live in such a privileged

The first thoughts that come to mind when one thinks of North Korea are undoubtedly not "pleasant, free, and cheerful," but rather the complete opposite. North Korea, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, is known around the world for having one of the most suppressive and fascist governments. Some refugees that have managed to escape North Korea have described their own country as an immense prison. North Korea is described as a communist country, a tyrannical system, and is governed by a one-man dictatorship. It is a system in where the state controls every aspect of private, personal, and public life. Living in these conditions are brutal for the citizens of the country. Today, North Korea is less free and less humane than any other country.

“All of North Korea is a jail.” (Kim Young-sam) , this quote may appear farfetched but when looking into how North Korea treats its people, its not so out of this world. Sad but true, North Korea has issues upon issues regarding human rights. Stripping the local’s freedom and expression, every word you might say could be your one way ticket to prison. Along with being sent to detention centers and camps for offenses not even acknowledged internationally. Yet North Korea continues to deny the citizens rights, and that should be stopped since it violates their right to freedom , as well as their basic human needs.

The North Korean citizens have had their own trouble even surviving day to day. Kim Jong Un would rather feed his growing army than his own people, whom he’s supposed to rule over and take care of. Not only that but while the country is in famine he’d rather spend money building nuclear missiles. The people in North Korea don’t have many freedoms, they’re constantly monitored

This is a country led by an individual who doesn’t have the country and its people’s best interests at heart. What he says goes, and this is a dangerous system as the rewards are low but risks high for society and the country as a cohesive unit. “Deadly attack dogs, kidnappings, public executions, starvation, thought-control, religious persecution and forced marriages. A new United Nations report reveals in grim detail how the North Korean government terrorizes its own people. It also declares the country’s young dictator, Kim Jong, guilty of crimes against humanity” (Smith). Kim Jong is a ruthless dictator who uses any means possible of oppression to subdue his people. The international community took a while to, but finally started to take action and labeled him as a criminal against

There are three different kinds of dictatorships; Autocracy, oligarchy, and absolute democracy. I am going to talk about North Korea. North Korea is one of the few remaining totalitarian governments, which is a form of dictatorship in which the dictator or ruler try to control all aspects of life, extending beyond politics. While they have elections to choose their leader, the elected leader has full control over all aspects of life. Life is drastically different inside this form of government, as photos show, life is heavily restricted. TV programs only show propaganda and they are the only source of entertainment. A news articles tells the story of a boy names Kim and how he survived the famine in North Korea. Early in the article, Kim tells us that, "You could be sent to a prison camp for allowing dirt to gather on Kim – sung's portrait, or putting it behind cracked glass,". This tells us how hard the punishments were and how unfair everything was. It also tells us how they brainwashed the citizens, whether they portrayed Americans spearing pregnant women, or leading them to think that their only escape route, the Tumen river, was laced with 33,000 volts of electricity. Overall, life in North Korea is a terrible experience.

The first is the most gruesome part that we are just going to dive into the gruesome details of torture. One of the most gruesome forms that was also a form of execution, where they would hang you until you were half dead then they would cut you down and disembowel you and quarter you while you were still alive. Then they would throw you intestinal track into a fire nearby. A lot

North Korea is currently imprisoning its own people as political prisoners who did not commit any crime. North Koreans were “imprisoned for watching soap operas, trying to find food for their families, traveling without permission or having family members