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Refugees In North Korea

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The situation for the people of North Korea is growing more desperate every day due to the conditions the government has put on it’s people. From famine to imprisonment and concentration camps there is unmistakeable misery. North Korea needs to have intervention from other countries to assist their people with human rights reform. Also South Korea has challenged North Korea to prove it does not violate human rights of its citizens. “For starters, there's a resurgent famine driven by gross government mismanagement that threatens millions of lives, hundreds of thousands of political prisoners languish in concentration camps, and an estimated half-million refugees remain in hiding from forced repatriation that often results in torture and execution” (Hong). In this quote Hong explains that these people needed help because they feel threatened, so they are scared for what will happen next. Hong’s opinion that, North Korea …show more content…

“North Koreans seeking asylum in countries that do not repatriate refugees are put in severely overcrowded detention centers, sometimes for well over a year, before being issued exit visas,” (US). This quote shows the mistreatment of North Korean refugees by other countries. China itself is guilty of human rights abuses because of its stance of forcing refugees to return to North Korea where they face death or imprisonment. “Human rights groups report that the refugees were sent by train to the northern Chinese city of Shenyang last week and then transferred to Tumen, on the Chinese side of the border with North Korea. There is a large detention facility in Tumen where North Koreans are held before being repatriated.”(Fifield). This quote from the article is stating that China is guilty of being an accomplice to North Korea regarding basic human

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