North Korea

Is North korea committing genocide?

Korea War
The Korean War was fought between South Korea and communist North
Korea
It was the major conflict of Cold War
The Soviet Union and Peoples Republic of china are supported North Korea
and the United State,Great Britain,and the United Nation are supported
South Korea
The countries are still divided today and North Korea is still ruled by a
communist regime

Is North korea
committing genocide?

Religious group
Before Korea was divided in 1948,there were millions of Christain who
lived in North Korea
About 25-30% of Pyongyangs population was Christain
Today all traces of this once-flourishing religious community and culture
have been obliterated
USA reported that about 200,000 North Koreans are currently held in the
concentration camps and about 50,000-70,000 of them are Christians

National and racial group

Many refugees are women and eighty percent of those who
remain in China are forced into prostitution or forced
marriages.
China also returns North Korean women to North Korea
even if they are married to Chinese citizens.
They are usually executed or sent to concentration
camps.

Political
People suspected of holding non-communist political
opinions or who are not ethnically fully North Korean
are held in concentration camps or prisons.

Other possible manifestation of genocide

executions and state-sanctioned murders
the systematic use of torture
forcible abortions and infanticide
the forcible transfer and enslavement of children.

Concentration camps
KWAN LI SO - A place imprison political

KYO HWA SO - A place imprison both political

prisoners who were sentenced to life

prisoners and criminal prisoners ,but they

imprisonment (sometime arrested both 3

dont imprisonment for life. This prison

generation ; grandfather,father,son)

called deadly prison labor because many

without having a trial. Everyone have to work

prisoners often die before the due of

hard and not get enough food.This kind of

punishment. In addition it has a special

camp has about 6-7 places in North Korea.

detention center, other prisons,and the prison

only for people who are trying to escape to
China,and get caught.

The concentration camp

Wilderness area,far from civilization,and high security system.
It has a securely security check at the entrance doors and have an electrical
fence that is about 2.5 meters long bounding.
A trap with lots of porcupine thorn.
The components : Factories, locked rooms which are like prisons, tower, pig
stable, etc.

Living condition
Harsh, dirty, and stink
Very limited amount of food ; Salty soup, raw corn, corn porridge,pickled cabbage,etc
The prisoners only eat meat when they cathch by themself ; rat ,worm ,mud ,etc

Solitary cell
They are only 100 cm tall 120 cm wide. They can only sit in it, and when
you lose all your body fat your bone will schatch the wall .

Working condition
A typical male detainee in
rags is characterized by
skinny body and projecting
cheekbones

A typical female detainee

on farm

Torturing
in the concentration camp of North Korea

Saparrow
The body is bent forward with the head hanging downward, the legs spread
apart, and the arms are pulled up from behind.

Despairing female
detainees

Scouring figernails

While being dunked, they have

needles pushed under their
fingernails.

Crane, airplane, and motorbike

Detainees must
maintain the postures
imitating crane,
airplane and motorbike
for hours while
continuously imitating
their sounds.

The detainees are

constantly
tormented by fleas
and lice. Skin
diseases caused by
bug bites can
develop into
serious scarring
all the way to the
bone.

References
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaechon_concentration_camp
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoeryong_concentration_camp
http://www.northkoreanow.org/the-crisis/north-koreas-gulags/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamhung_concentration_camp
http://www.northkoreanrefugees.com/2012-04-deathcamp.htm

http://www.worldpolicy.org/blog/2012/02/06/genocide-north-korea
http://www.genocidewatch.org/northkorea.html
http://thediplomat.com/2012/02/time-to-end-north-korea-genocide/Is NR committing genocide?
http://www.jewishjournal.com/cover_story/article/holocaust_in_north_korea

http://www.ducksters.com/history/cold_war/korean_war.php