The Hidden Gulags In North Korea

[NATO AIR]

Horrific reading, but something that must become known to every American. We must speak out louder and more fervently about the terror the North Korean regime inflicts on its people (and kudos to Pres. Bush for being forthright at every opportunity about the true nature of the regime)

(When you see the pictures of the starving boy, your heart aches when you consider his suffering and horror)

http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20050515/news_mz1e15howard.html

The hidden gulag

Reports leak out of atrocities at North Korean labor camps

By Young Howard
May 15, 2005

Horrific conditions and suffering make it the last worst place on Earth

Grandsons are condemned to life-long terms as slave laborers alongside their grandfathers, both equally helpless in the brutal surroundings. Prisoners are arbitrarily murdered by security guards. Women suffer from forced abortions at the hands of unlicensed doctors. Newborn babies are beaten to death. And sons and daughters are publicly executed in front of their mothers.

This is not the story of an age of slavery from centuries past or of a survivor of Nazi Germany's Holocaust. It is what is happening at this moment inside the gulags of North Korea. The stories of gulag survivors are often too horrible to believe for the citizens of civilized countries. If one were to have the opportunity to speak with a survivor of a North Korean gulag, what they would reveal might be well beyond the threshold of the listener's imagination.

Chul Hwan Kang became the first of many defectors to follow when he arrived in South Korea in 1992 having survived detention in living hell. He served in the labor camp for political prisoners called "Yoduk" from the age of 9 to 19 for the sole reason that his grandfather was accused of criticizing the North Korean regime.

Kang recounts his experience as a young person in the camps stating that children would spend the day beginning at 6 o'clock in the morning working hard manual labor. The failure to accomplish the work quota may result in reduced food rations. At age 17, he was less than 150 centimeters tall (5 feet) and weighed about 40 kilograms (88 pounds). In fact, Kang's size was characteristic of all detained children, whose growth was universally retarded by continuous malnutrition and brutality. Girls were no taller than 145 centimeters by their late teens and were never cleaner than boys. With unkempt hair and lacking the nutrition critical to adolescent development, they did not look like girls, forced to become part of an androgynous and anonymous prison population.

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[onedomino]

If one were to have the opportunity to speak with a survivor of a North Korean gulag, what they would reveal might be well beyond the threshold of the listener's imagination.

The specter of a Saddam Hussein spiderhole haunts Kim Jong II. The tyrant knows that he will be executed for crimes against humanity when the DPRK cesspool is drained. North Korea, what a charming country: fascist police state, concentration camps, medical experiments on prisoners, mass starvation and cannibalism, international kidnapping, counterfeiting, drug running, ballistic missile trafficking, and murder: this is the state created by Russia and the PRC. Have these countries been held accountable? Is it even discussed? No, the world is too busy trying to figure out what to do with their progeny: nuclear armed Nazis.

 

[Johnney]

there is a special place in hell for people like lil kim. im not sure if military action would go over real big over there. i can jsut see the antis preparing thier signs now. maybe they should have an all expense paid vacation over there for about 6 months to see if we would be warranted or not.

 

[KarlMarx]

there is a special place in hell for people like lil kim. im not sure if military action would go over real big over there. i can jsut see the antis preparing thier signs now. maybe they should have an all expense paid vacation over there for about 6 months to see if we would be warranted or not.

Unfortunately, any military action against North Korea will have the PRC responding in kind to a military action against us. That's what happened in Korea in the 1950s. The problem is that Kim Il Jong knows this and acts accordingly.

This is a no-win situation. If we invade North Korea, we risk a confrontation with the PRC that might go nuclear. If we don't do anything about North Korea, we risk having an out of control regime that is a danger to the area and is killing millions of innocent people.

 

[Johnney]

Unfortunately, any military action against North Korea will have the PRC responding in kind to a military action against us. That's what happened in Korea in the 1950s. The problem is that Kim Il Jong knows this and acts accordingly.

This is a no-win situation. If we invade North Korea, we risk a confrontation with the PRC that might go nuclear. If we don't do anything about North Korea, we risk having an out of control regime that is a danger to the area and is killing millions of innocent people.

it would be tough indeed. now something covertly....
but in truth we know that it doesnt matter how he would die, it would always be our fault. he could fall out of his chair and break his neck and it would be on our shoulders.