Otto Warmbier Trial Essay

North Korea’s ruler, Kim Jong-un, made North Korea a harsh and brutal place to live. He has made many rules for North Korea, but if someone doesn’t follow they capture them, the government officials/ agents put a board behind you and make you sit down. If they pushed on you, you would collapse, and you would hear your kneecaps

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

While in hiding, Anne Frank was closed off from the world as she was not allowed to leave the “Secret Annex”. To pass time Anne would read books and wrote in an autograph book she received for her 13th birthday, the book in which she used as a diary described her life in hiding, her various thoughts, and relationships with the members of the Secret Annex in which Anne was hiding in. Before going into hiding, Otto Frank had notified a few of his most trusted workers where they would be hiding. The workers would shortly visit the annex to tend the Franks with necessities such as food and gave news of the war. Although life was hard, their survival from Hitler’s regime seemed promising until in a sudden sad turn of events, one of Otto’s workers

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.

Witch trials are not new to people who know or enjoy history, in fact, they are a staple of Early Modern European history. It is a common misconception that witch trials were nothing but an excuse to hunt shadows and get back at people they did not like, that there was a sense of mad hysteria like in The Crucible. The Trial of Tempel Anneke is a trial record from 1663 that on the surface does not have much too it, but in fact shows the reader a lot of the inner psyche of common people from this time as well as how empirical the courts were in these court trials

The UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Opinion and Expression stated that “any system of prior restraint on freedom of expression carries with it a heavy presumption of invalidity under international human rights law,” in his report on Republic of Korea and the ECtHR ruled that “the dangers inherent in prior restraints are such that they call for the most careful scrutiny” . This case involved an ad hoc application of prior restraint by the Republic of Korea government to prevent publication of a specific harmful expression through the

In the beginning of this film Dave Skylark and Aaron Rapport, creators of the TV show Skylark Tonight were mocked and judged of the fact that their news was unimportant. Not letting that stop them, they strived to go for bigger and better by contacting the supreme leader of North Korea Kim Jong-un for an interview session. Surprisingly enough they were contacted back with the good news that the Supreme leader agreed to be interviewed on Skylark Tonight. Even after achieving the impossible, they were still mocked and were said to have made up the whole situation. Dave Skylark would say “they are just peanut butter and jealous”.

Because of that, he was arrested due to guilt by association. Also, because his family was considered a “hostile class”, his family was punished for three generations (Choe) Prisoners are also subject to random human experimentation. Though this was thought to be a thing in the past, it still unfortunately happening today. An incident in which a guard was forced to make prisoners eat the poisonous cabbages for “scientific purposes” resulted in all of them vomiting blood and dying within 20 minutes. Former head of security Kwon Hwok described a time when he witnessed a family being tested with suffocating gas. “The parents, son and a daughter. The parents were vomiting and dying, but till the very last moment they tried to save kids by doing mouth-to-mouth breathing,” he testified (Barnett). Although, there are many organizations that are spreading awareness about the evilness of the camps, such as Liberty In North Korea, this is still an ongoing issue that needs to be eradicated. I believe that the solution would be to close the concentration camps and to prohibit the People’s

Bae was managing a legal tour company in North Korea when he was accused of engaging in anti-state activities and sentenced to 15 years of hard labor in April 2013. He was also charged with inciting citizens to work against the administration, Christian Today

If a citizen ever dares to go against the North Korean government then the citizen and their entire family will be thrown into an internment

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.

Otto Warmbier was arrested while departing North Korea due to an incident in the hotel he was staying in, Yanggakdo International Hotel. His crime has been characterized

North Korean laws protect women and children from abduction and trafficking, but very few prosecutions occur. An impartial judicial system is nonexistent, evidenced by its

The words “North Korea” has almost an eerie connotation to it, there is hardly any good news that follow after those words. North Korea also known as, DPRK which stands for Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is a communist state under totalitarian dictatorship led by Kim Jung-Un. According to Leila Haddou, “DPRK is one of the few countries that still participates in the death penalty, but unlike North Korea, many countries and states that have the death penalty have not had any executions in the past 10 years” (“Death Penalty Statistics 2013: Country by Country”). I remember hearing the news on TV, and reading numerous articles in 2013 when Kim Jung-Un announced a “public execution of 8 people, whom were accused of watching illicit South Korean dramas or because of prostitution. The execution took place in a city called Wonsan, and 10,000 people of all ages were forced to watch as the firing squad shot at the “criminals”. Throughout the month of November, there were 80 recorded executions total due to possession of the Bible, watching South Korean dramas, porn, and for prostitution” (Presse “North Korea ‘Publicly Executed 80 People’”). As a Korean and a Christian, when I hear devastating news like this it makes me question why and how Americans and everyone else in the world can continue to live their lives as if nothing else is going wrong in the world. The most prominent answer would be that it is because it’s not affecting Americans directly.

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.