Why Is Camp 14 Wrong

The detention camp has been classified as a human rights violation due to the unjust and torturous treatment of inmates by the guards and employees during interrogation sessions. Methods that infringe basic human rights include force-feeding hunger strikes, sensory; sleep deprivation, sexual assault, and lack of privacy, torture, speech and waterboarding. Inmates were recognized as ‘enemy combatants’ with no particular evidence. Moreover they were left in small cells of wire mesh, which were no larger than a few square meters, and they did not have the freedom to practice their faith. Force-feeding inmates whilst on hunger strikes, again violated article 3 of the Geneva conventions, and has been recognized by the international committee of

In this work, Kang’s family is living in North Korea when he and his family are sent to Yodok prison camp for the supposed crimes of his grandfather. It is important to note that Kang was only nine years of age at the time. He, his young sister, his grandmother, his father, and his uncle were sent to Yodok where they were placed in a cold hut and immediately forced to learn how to survive without the amenities they were accustomed to in

The mistreatment of men, women, and children not only affect the citizens of North Korea, but also the countries around the world trying to fight for human rights. Numerous communities have been pushing for respectful treatment of all individuals. While many countries have progressed in allowing everyone more human rights, North Korea has backtracked. The government prevents their citizens the freedom of speech, the privacy of life, and the ability to nourish their bodies. Tom Head, a civil rights activist, describes how the North Korean government forces their citizens to remain loyal and obedient to the republic. Head expresses that “anyone who is overheard saying anything perceived as critical to the government is subject to...torture, execution, or imprisonment in one of North Korea's ten brutal concentration camps” (Head). Sadly, if citizens of North Korea demonstrate a disagreement toward the ideology of Kim Jong Un, they could be inhumanely murdered or imprisoned. According to Human Rights Watch, “the [North Korean] government [has the ability] to

The prisoners of the camps had very strict rules. Prisoners were required to wear color coded triangles so that guards could identify them. Besides the Jews, political prisoners, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and homosexuals were others who were imprisoned. Soviet soldiers worked more than any other group in forced labor. The prisoners were treated badly which led to 3 million deaths. They died for reasons like being gassed, starvation, disease, exhaustion, and brutal treatment.

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.

Citizens would be sent to Gulags, or Soviet labor camps had they been considered political threats. A similar process also occurs in North Korea. In North Korea, associated citizens or family members of the accused are also sent to labor camps. Minor offenses result in imprisonment, under terrible living and working conditions. The people of North KOrea live in fear of the camps, but remain loyal to their leader, Kim Jong

According to senior editor Peter Weber of the political The Week magazine, “North Korea isn’t Nazi Germany--in some ways, it’s worse.” In this column Weber points out a 36 page report and its 373 page addendum report conducted by retired Australian judge Michael Kirby of the United Nations that revealed grisly details about the human rights abuses occurring in North Korea. The report was based on testimonies from witnesses and former inmates who had spent time in one of the encampments and who luckily made it out alive. Pyongyang 14 is one of the many camps that Kim Jong-un has in place to exterminate, murder, enslave, torture, and starve his people as the report notes. In addition, there are also forced abortions and other sexual violence that take place in this inhumane setting. North Korea forbids that their citizens know about life outside of the country, so if they attempt to do so there will be room for them in one of the prison camps since Jong-un is expanding their capacity. Something as little as watching a soap opera can land a North Korean in one of these camps, that is if they are not killed right away. For example, 10 people in the country were executed last year by firing squad when upper echelons in the North Korean hierarchy found out that they were watching “foreign” soap operas (Ryall). It is beyond belief that one’s life can be taken for something of such small magnitude. In Weber’s column he describes an interview Kirby had with a one-time prisoner at

For my project I choose to do the prison camps of North Korea and how it's very unfair for the family's. I think it's bad for the families because if a person in said family commits a small crime the entire family goes into a prison camp even if another family didn't know they were related to said person, once the families are put into prison camps they are forced to do hard labor for the rest of their lives, and there's not enough space in the camps causing the “supreme” leader to build more camps slowly causing his citizens to die of starvation.

“Three Generations Of Punishment”, a 60 Minutes interview conducted by Anderson Cooper, is a thought provoking look inside North Korea’s political work camps. In this interview, we speak to Shin Dong-hyuk, former resident, and escapee of one of said concentration camps, Camp 14. One hundred and fifty thousand people inhabit Camp 14, which lies fifty miles outside of the city of Pyongyang. This camp, as well as many others, follow the ‘Three Generations of Punishment’ policy institutionalized by former leader of North Korea, Kim Il-Sung. This law decrees that if someone commits a political wrongdoing, he, and the two generations after him, will live in work camps for their whole lives as a form of punishment. Kim Il-Sung put this system

The cruel and unruly torture that is done to the prisoners in North Korean concentration camps, are a reminder of the horrors that occurred during the holocaust by the Nazis and other Axis power. In these North Korean prison camps many prisoners die because of mistreatment, and lack of supplies; The United States and South Korea have estimated around 200,000 people imprisoned within many of these North Korean concentration camps. There is also an estimated 400,000 people who have died in these concentration camps from torture, starvation, and execution. North Korea’s Regime which controls all governmental aspects of North Korea created concentration camps for political prisoners and the family member of the political prisoners who have

"The individuals who reject face being sent to constrained work camps where they must do hard work, face physical misuse from watchmen, and are dealt with as not exactly human."Human Rights Watch met roughly 65 defectors in South Korea and Thailand in the course of recent months. One female North Korean defector who left North Korea in December 2009 told Human Rights Watch that "any individual who leaves his place of employment … is legitimately rebuffed for the reason of being unemployed … " and will be "taken to the constrained work camp for between three to six months. Any individual who doesn't work is thought to be a criminal in North Korea." Another male who got away from North Korea in March 2011 said that "… in the event that you are put some place [to work], you must go there without inquiry" and "it is difficult to deny working on the grounds that you didn't care for it, it's mandatory undoubtedly." Another defector told Human Rights Watch "After I completed school, the powers constrained me to work at the administration mine however it's far from my home.

The average child in north korea is 8 inches shorter than the average child of the same age in south Korea due to malnourishment. (3.) “In September this year, a United Nations inquiry into human rights abuses in North Korea highlighted the "unspeakable" and "widespread" atrocities being carried out in camps that required an international response, including a mother forced to drown her own baby and a prison camp inmate compelled to eat rodents and lizards just to survive.

Some of the Human Rights that are violated in North Korea are Human Right Number 5. “No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.” In the book; Escape From Camp 14, Chapter 2, Page 25. Because this girl had stole 5 kernels

North Korea is one of the many places in the world where human rights issues are in a whole other level. North Korea is a democratic country originally ruled by Kim Il Sung a communist leader. Kim Il Sung was born on April 15, 1912 and came into power in 1948 when he was 36. Many of the people in North Korea had to deal with some new changes in their human rights. Including extermination, murder, enslavement, torture, imprisonment, rape, and other assaults and violence. North Korea runs prison camps where people who oppose the government are sent to deal with awful conditions such as abuse, starvation and forced labor. Fear of going to these camps many people keep silent about these issues in order to

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