Summary
It is difficult to get a clear picture of North-Korea, but what we do know is that the North-Korean government controls all activities within the nation(this includes the radio, news and other television organisations. The television usually praises Kim Jong-Il(the leader of North-Korea). Citizens are not allowed to freely speak their minds.
There are a few churches in North-Korea but, it has been claimed by North Korean defectors that these churches are façades filled with government workers, and that they are there to convince foreign workers and tourists in Pyongyang(the capital of North-Korea) that North Korea is a free country. North Korean citizens usually cannot freely travel around the country, especially not abroad. Only the politicians are allowed to own cars and the government limits access to fuel and other forms of transportation due shortages of fuel. Babies born with physical defects are rapidly put to death and buried.
Public and secret executions of prisoners, even children, especially in cases of escape attempts also often happen.
In the mid 90's over a million people died on the other side of the world without anyone noticing. Millions of people starved and hundreds of thousands were imprisoned in concentration camps. Most of the North-Koreans think it is normal how they live and have no idea of freedom. LINK is an organisation which helps North-Korean escapees to escape and to prepare for the future. Many escapees are mentally not ready to enter the normal society, so LINK helps them to understand everything.
U.N. Watch added that with millions starving under the current regime, it is unconscionable for the U.N. to grant the country a position of high stature: “As one of the world’s worst violators of human rights, North Korea should not be granted the symbolic legitimacy of chairing a world body dedicated to peace.”
U.N. agencies and humanitarian groups are doing their best to provide North-Koreans with food packages, money and other helpful items to help them survive but they continue to have trouble knowing how their aid is distributed. Once, a North-Korean was asked if he had gotten any help from the outside world, including food packages and medicine. He said that he had never heard of such a thing. This means that the North-Korean government is holding all the items the U.N. Agencies send them.
Speaking at the end of a five-day visit to North Korea, Valerie Amos, a U.N. undersecretary-general, said Friday that 6 million North Koreans, particularly children, mothers and pregnant women, need help. The figures, she said, are born out by UN data and by what she learned from visits to farms, hospitals and orphanages, as well as from officials.
People's daily food, she said, consist of rice, corn, cabbage, little else and no protein or nutrient rich foods. The government does not care about this and chooses to keep the aid packages to themselves.
Amnesty International is also doing their best to help North-Koreans out of this horrible situation. They are calling on Kim Jong-Il to:
-Confess the existence of prison camps
-Immediately close these prison camps
-Immediately release all the prisoners
-Release all other inmates unless they are charged with an internationally offence
References:
1) http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-20124082/u.n.-north-korea-needs-food-aid-not-politics/ (online article, October 21, 2011 10:44 PM)
2) http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/ASA24/001/2011/en/2671e54f-1cd1-46c1-96f1-6a463efa6f65/asa240012011en.pdf
(online article, 3 May 2011)
3) http://www.linkglobal.org/index.html (website)
It is difficult to get a clear picture of North-Korea, but what we do know is that the North-Korean government controls all activities within the nation(this includes the radio, news and other television organisations. The television usually praises Kim Jong-Il(the leader of North-Korea). Citizens are not allowed to freely speak their minds.
There are a few churches in North-Korea but, it has been claimed by North Korean defectors that these churches are façades filled with government workers, and that they are there to convince foreign workers and tourists in Pyongyang(the capital of North-Korea) that North Korea is a free country. North Korean citizens usually cannot freely travel around the country, especially not abroad. Only the politicians are allowed to own cars and the government limits access to fuel and other forms of transportation due shortages of fuel. Babies born with physical defects are rapidly put to death and buried.
Public and secret executions of prisoners, even children, especially in cases of escape attempts also often happen.
In the mid 90's over a million people died on the other side of the world without anyone noticing. Millions of people starved and hundreds of thousands were imprisoned in concentration camps. Most of the North-Koreans think it is normal how they live and have no idea of freedom. LINK is an organisation which helps North-Korean escapees to escape and to prepare for the future. Many escapees are mentally not ready to enter the normal society, so LINK helps them to understand everything.
U.N. Watch added that with millions starving under the current regime, it is unconscionable for the U.N. to grant the country a position of high stature: “As one of the world’s worst violators of human rights, North Korea should not be granted the symbolic legitimacy of chairing a world body dedicated to peace.”
U.N. agencies and humanitarian groups are doing their best to provide North-Koreans with food packages, money and other helpful items to help them survive but they continue to have trouble knowing how their aid is distributed. Once, a North-Korean was asked if he had gotten any help from the outside world, including food packages and medicine. He said that he had never heard of such a thing. This means that the North-Korean government is holding all the items the U.N. Agencies send them.
Speaking at the end of a five-day visit to North Korea, Valerie Amos, a U.N. undersecretary-general, said Friday that 6 million North Koreans, particularly children, mothers and pregnant women, need help. The figures, she said, are born out by UN data and by what she learned from visits to farms, hospitals and orphanages, as well as from officials.
People's daily food, she said, consist of rice, corn, cabbage, little else and no protein or nutrient rich foods. The government does not care about this and chooses to keep the aid packages to themselves.
Amnesty International is also doing their best to help North-Koreans out of this horrible situation. They are calling on Kim Jong-Il to:
-Confess the existence of prison camps
-Immediately close these prison camps
-Immediately release all the prisoners
-Release all other inmates unless they are charged with an internationally offence
References:
1) http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-20124082/u.n.-north-korea-needs-food-aid-not-politics/ (online article, October 21, 2011 10:44 PM)
2) http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/ASA24/001/2011/en/2671e54f-1cd1-46c1-96f1-6a463efa6f65/asa240012011en.pdf
(online article, 3 May 2011)
3) http://www.linkglobal.org/index.html (website)
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