The Bloody Tear: North Korea´s Utopic Society

In the book Northing to Envy, Barbara Demick describes North Korea as an undeveloped country. “You can see the evidence of what once was and has been lost…” (4,Demick) The North Koreas aren’t up to the modern world and still haven’t learned that all humans need rights to be happy. Many aspects of human rights are broken in North Korean society that affect the people negatively, making them feel violated.

North Korea is a country that is ruled by a dictator and has a communist government. A communist government rules all the land and gives the same amount of money and supplies to all the people in the country. “Daily Necessities were obtained from the Public Distribution System (PDS)” (95,Hassig). The PDS shut down in 1995 because foreign aid was cut off expect for Pyongyang, the capital city. In rural areas, a lot of the children were born as “no-count” meaning that when they were born they weren’t counted as part of the existing society and didn’t have supplies given to them. North Korea was once a unified country with South Korea until September 9, 1948 when it became a separate country. From 1910 to 1945 Japan had ruled

One example of two countries who are separated by communism and democracy is North and South Korea. South Korea is ruled by the ideas of democracy, in the other hand North Korea is ruled by communism. “ By 2014, over 23,000 North Koreans had escaped to live in South Korea and other free nations.” As it is said by many refugees from North Korea, being under the ruling of Kim Jong-il is not a very safe and liberal country.

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.

Since the year 1948, we, the people of North Korea have endured intolerable human rights abuses by the hand of our very own government. As individuals in this world, we are enervated with the governments unmindful treatment of its people. We demand an authentic democratic nation free from the reign of Kim Jong-Un. Must we rely on foreign nations to administer aid in times of famine while our “supreme leader” misspends funds formulating weapons of mass destruction? Must we live in a constant state of fear if we make one selves concerns heard? No, we must take the government into our own hands to better guide North Korea's political, civil, and monetary

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 citizens of North Korea don’t have any rights or freedom. They can not elect a new person into power. They are stuck with the dictator that the currently have, Kim Jong-un. This monster will continue to murder staff and suppress his citizens until the day he dies. None of the North Korean citizens will never know what freedom is. In the United States we are born with rights and freedoms that many wish they had. These rights and freedom are always in jeopardy by people that want to take them away. Recently gay and lesbian groups are fighting for their rights as U.S. citizens. There rights are not just given to them, as it should be. They have to organize movements, demonstrations, and protest in order to get their voice heard. Martin Luther King Jr., Machiavelli, and Plato all believed this. They all believed in there civil rights and knew they were protected by the constitution. With out these men and there faith in the constitution many of our rights and freedoms wouldn’t exist.

It has been almost sixty-five years since the split of Korea into the North and South. Although it was not until 1953 when Korea was confirmed by a signed agreement that it is spilt in North Korea and South Korea. As a result of Korea separating into two countries, two different people were in power with different types of governing. Although both countries were once one single country, they both have merged into two totally different countries, that if in the future they came back together to be one country it would be difficult to comprise their rulers and come to an agreement of governing between them.

North Korea has been a place of conflict both domestically and internationally since its establishment in 1948. Although most of the talk around the world is concerning how North Korea is a big threat to other countries, their internal troubles are far more catastrophic and costly. The main domestic problem that North Korea faces is the existence of concentration camps that are not for prisoners of war, but for their own people. These camps encourage the mistreatment of North Korean citizens, who are trapped in these societies defenselessly. The effects of these camps has, and will continue to be, detrimental to North Korean society. The establishment of political prison camps in North Korea has lead to constant dehumanization of their people,

In North Korea, communism ruled supreme in government and in South Korea a more capitalist approach was prevalent in their government. . The spread of communism didn’t stop and kept its march downward through the peninsula at a steady pace. “On June 25th, 1950 75,000 North Korean troops poured into South Korea which kick started the beginning of the Korean War. This lead to a civil war between North and South Korea which was soon brought to international attention when the U.S. came to the aid of South Korea and the Peoples republic of China (PRC) came to the aid of North Korea.”1

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.

It was at this time that Korea was divided along the 38th parallel essentially becoming two different countries allowing it to be ruled by different governments, and have separate economic systems. It became known as North and South Korea with the North under Soviet rule and occupation and the South becoming a United States mainstay. This division of Korea led South Korea to declare statehood as there was no path to creating a unified country due to the Cold War. It declared statehood in May 1948 under the Syngman Rhee, an anti-communist. This led to the North declaring itself as the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea on September 9, 1948. At this time, Kim Il Sung became the Premier, or leader of the

North Korea is under the rule of the Kim’s. Kim Jong-un is the supreme leader and is in charge of most major government activities. North Korea’s main focus is on Military and has priority above everything else. The North Korean military is one of the largest institutions, however the force is said to be weak because of the lack of nuclear weapons (nukes). The citizens of North Korea have very little rights and the Human Rights Watch say that they are some of the most brutalized people. Laws there are extensive and have strict control over traveling, employment, food and

After the establishment of the separate governments, the Soviets and the United States withdrew their forces from Korea. In the first years of the states, the Republic of Korea and the Democratic People’s Republic Korea has dissimilar evolution. Social revolutions were carried on in the DPRK while political instability took place in the south. In the DPRK the people were provided with better living standard and all sort of political rights and liberty, such as the law on equal rights of women, the land reform and the nationalization of former Japanese industry, and ordinary working people are elected deputies to the people’s assemblies of all

Just imagine, being in a world where everyone is controlled and taught to believe that there life is perfect. That is a reality for the citizens in North Korea.. At a young age the children in North Korea are taught and controlled to believe that they way they live is perfect, but in reality we all know that it is quite the opposite. Shannon L. Alder, a popular writer, perfectly described this by stating, “your perspective on life comes from the cage you were held captive in” (https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1391130.Shannon_L_Alder). Alder is an inspirational writer that wrote over 100 novels, two of her best being 300 Questions To Ask Your Parents and 300 Questions LDS Couples Should Ask Before Marriage. Her writings are mainly focused around celebrating uniqueness and freeing oneself, so that they can live life to the fullest. This quote directly explains the life in North Korea, and how helpless the North Korean population is to the dictatorship. This can be explained in three main reasons through the novel, The Girl With Seven Names, and the short story, Total Control in North Korea. The first reason is how the government controls the whole population in North Korea. Secondly, how this quote directly relates to North Korea through a perspective aspect of our perspective on North Korea versus the perspective of a normal North Korean citizen. Finally, the third main