North Korean Defector Shares Stories of Atrocities
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[quote]OSAN AIR BASE, South Korea - An escapee of a North Korean prison camp spoke about his experience of physical and emotional isolation in the secluded country at a special event April 23, 2014, at Osan Air Base, Republic of Korea.
Shin Dong-hyuk, subject of Escape From Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey From North Korea to Freedom in the West, by Blaine Harden, was born in one of several "total-control zones" in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, but escaped in 2005 to become a singular voice in raising awareness of the conditions of North Korean internment camps for political prisoners.
"There are some words I've learned that can describe what we lived like in the prison camps in North Korea," said Shin via translator to a standing-room only audience at the base theater. "There's a word, slave. There's a word, animal. Yet even animals on the camps lived a better life than we did. The guards who owned the dogs and cats in the camp fed them better than we were fed."
Shin recounted his own history to the audience, explaining that his parents were sentenced to live in the internment camp at 15 and 16 years old for conspiring against the state, a common charge in North Korea. Born in 1982, Shin inherited the charges against his parents and became a prisoner and political enemy of the state by virtue of being born there.
"There are no real political offenders in these camps," said Shin. "They made me a prisoner just because I was born there. How can a newborn be a political offender?"
Shin said the conditions inside the camp are comprehensively tyrannical, and prisoners become desensitized to brutality and inhumane conditions at a young age.
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Sadly even though these atrocities are known, no one will do anything about it.
I hope 70 years from now we don't look back at our inaction in N.K. like we do for our inaction in the Holocaust
[QUOTE=Explosions;44663918]I hope 70 years from now we don't look back at our inaction in N.K. like we do for our inaction in the Holocaust[/QUOTE]
I already think it's too late.
[QUOTE=Explosions;44663918]I hope 70 years from now we don't look back at our inaction in N.K. like we do for our inaction in the Holocaust[/QUOTE]
Honestly, there isn't much that the world can do for them. Not like it matters, anyway. The moment NK collapses, a crapload of people is gonna die.
[QUOTE]As he and his partner were running, Shin slipped on the snow around the fence. When he got up, he noticed his partner trying to go over the fence and getting caught on the electrical wire.
"He didn't make it, but I used his body to go over the fence," said Shin. "The spaces between the wire are very tiny, hard to fit anything between, but his body made it just wide enough for me to slip through."
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woah
[QUOTE=T553412;44663990]Honestly, there isn't much that the world can do for them. Not like it matters, anyway. The moment NK collapses, a crapload of people is gonna die.[/QUOTE]
I believe someone once said that even if we tried to do something for them, the people would see us attacking the regime as us basically attacking they're god, so they would fight us and likely die that way.
So yes even if we did do something innocent people will die regardless.
[QUOTE=Chjaren;44664006]I believe someone once said that even if we tried to do something for them, the people would see us attacking the regime as us basically attacking they're god, so they would fight us and likely die that way.
So yes even if we did do something innocent people will die regardless.[/QUOTE]
All you'd have to do is give them all hamburgers and you'd be their new god.
[QUOTE=businessPawn;44664064]All you'd have to do is give them all hamburgers and you'd be their new god.[/QUOTE]
No, read the article. The god-food is chicken.
I feel like it would be so weird if you lived in Seoul, or another South Korean town to know that this is happening just a few kilometres away, and nothing can be done.
Or living in the south of North Korea, and seeing the enormous beam of light created by the neighbouring country and wondering if it's as eerie over the hill.
[QUOTE=IForgotPassword;44664080]I feel like it would be so weird if you lived in Seoul, or another South Korean town to know that this is happening just a few kilometres away, and nothing can be done.
Or living in the south of North Korea, and seeing the enormous beam of light created by the neighbouring country and wondering if it's as eerie over the hill.[/QUOTE]
Just as the guy says in the article growing up how "it didn't seem bizarre because that's how it's always been", I suspect those living in those ways too feel the same.
Escape from Camp 14 is a good book and you should buy it
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