Mass Murder Still Continues Inside North Korea
After the decision by North Korea to declare and begin disassembling their nuclear program, the Bush Administration has agreed to lift sanctions long held against the regime in Pyongyang and remove that country from the list of state sponsors of terror.
To show their country is serious about disarming, the North Koreans are planning the televised destruction of the cooling tower at one of their major nuclear facilities at Yongbyon.
U.S. officials are quick to point out that this is only the beginning of a process that will be completed in stages. As the North Koreans fulfill each part of the agreement, the U.S. will in return make good on its promises.
The Bush Administration acknowledges that North Korea has a rich history of deception and broken promises and will of course be watched very carefully. Representatives from the U.S. and the IAEA will be allowed in to the country to monitor the progress of disarmament.
The disarmament of North Korea is of course a wonderful thing, however the world must not forget about the literal genocide that’s taking place in that country.
There is absolutely no country on the face of the earth with a worse record on human rights than North Korea. Kim Jong-IL makes Saddam Hussein look like a choir boy. North Korea is known as “the world’s largest prison camp” which is not an exaggeration by any means.
The cult-of-personality that the current Kim regime and his father before him have created in North Korea is unprecedented anywhere in the world. Most people have no idea the level to which that country is controlled. Their are only two phone lines in the entire country that reach the outside world, and you only need one guess to know who controls them.
More than 3 million North Koreans have died of starvation in recent years due to widespread famine. The Kim regime diverts what food aide it does allow in to the country to the military and party faithful.
The people of North and South Korea are genetically identical people, separated only by razor wire and a Stalinist madman.
However, North Koreans are on average 5″ shorter than South Koreans because of chronic malnutrition and starvation. South Korea is one of most technologically advanced nations in the world with a standard of living comparable to the United States, while North Koreans don’t even have anything to eat.
Human beings in North Korea have no value to the regime. The slightest infraction can result in a life sentence to one of the hundred of political prison camps scattered about the country. Prisoners live about as well as farm animals, and are worked until they die of starvation, hypothermia, sickness, suicide, or execution.
One particular human rights abuse is something right out of Nazi Germany. North Korea routinely tests chemical and biological weapons on prisoners. Sometimes gassing entire families together to study the effect of weapons.
Guards in these prisons are taught that prisoners are not humans but criminals who wish to destroy the country.
Collective punishment is the norm in North Korea. Not only is a suspected dissident arrested but also three generations of his family are imprisoned, to root out the bad blood and seed of dissent. There are children who are literally raised in prison camps if they’re fortunate enough to survive to adulthood. Their only crime is to have ancestors labeled as “criminals” by the regime.
One man who actually escaped from a camp he was born in says he had no idea about the outside world or anything. He thought it natural that he was in a prison camp because of his ancestors crimes.
“I didn’t know about America, or China or the fact that the Korean Peninsula was divided and there was a place called South Korea,” he said. “I thought it was natural that I was in the camp because of my ancestors’ crime, though I never even wondered what that crime was. I never thought it was unfair.”
The government practices total information control. North Koreans have no cell phones, no Internet access, and only limited government controlled television.
The bottom line is that while we celebrate what looks to be a nuclear disarmament of North Korea, we must also remember the horrifying cruelty that the citizens of North Korea will still be forced to endure.
Hollywood lefties love to play activist when it comes to global warming or Darfur, but the people of North Korea are suffering daily atrocities the likes of which the world has only rarely seen.
Robert Mugabe, Saddam Hussein, Fidel Castro, or the Junta in Berma, are all amateurs when it comes to mass murder compared to “Little Kim” of North Korea.
-Chris Jones
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