http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/asia-pacific/130326/north-korea-united-nations-prison-camps-torture
North
Korea is known for notorious human rights issue violation and hostile environment
against their own citizens to keep their communist ideology and the
dictatorship for decades. People suffer starvation, lack of freedom and people
are always under a "neighbor watch" which eliminates their privacy
and the sense of community.
This article
talks about what is going on with their prison camps in North Korea. It is not
so surprising that such inhumane torture is still going on in North Korea. A
lot of South Korean military hostage from the Korean War suffered in those
labor prisoner camps until their death. These types of human rights problem
existed from decades ago. The worst part of the problem is that almost nobody
has a direct influence that can resolve such issues.
North
Korea has always been under human rights watch but nothing effective was done
to resolve the problem. This is potentially the bigger problem than the human
rights violation that is happening in North Korea currently. The rest of the
world does not have the tools to help the people in stubborn state of North
Korea.
In my
opinion, this is going to become more serious problem since N.K. is getting cut
off from the rest of the world more and more as they develops nuclear weapons
and continue to contest against South Korea and United States. U.N signed a
sanction that is going to significantly reduce the ability of North Korea from
trading with the outside world to attack their economy but that is just causing
North Korea to be more isolated.
Resolving
the human rights issue in North Korea is a very urgent task. People are dying
every minute due to torture, starvation and execution for their ideology. We do
not hear every details of what happens in North Korea but we know that there is
more than what we read about. I hope there comes a day when North Korea people
can enjoy the same human rights signed in Universal Declaration of Human Rights
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