The North Korean Human Rights Crisis

Google Tech Talks
June 29, 2007

ABSTRACT

North Korea today is home to a network of several dozen concentration camps rivaling those of Auschwitz and Dachau of days past, hosting over 250,000 political prisoners and their families. North Korea is a prison state- there are no freedoms of religion, speech, movement, assembly- even the right to leave the nation is barred from the people. Hundreds of thousands of North Koreans have fled to neighboring China, only to be hunted down by Chinese authorities and sent back to North Korea to face torture and death; or to be sold by brokers and smugglers as labor or sexual slaves. An additional 15,000 North Koreans toil in slave labor camps outside North...

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[skydark]

Actually, people are growing desperate and starting to push back a little, but the conditions are miserable. To see a bit of both, check the video on telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews­/asia/southkorea/8165274/North­-Koreas-undercover-journalists­-reveal-misery-of-life-in-dict­atorship.html . But still, the biggest problem is governments ignoring the issue.

[pHishr2]

how is this not spread further? this was uploaded in 2007 and it's 2011 now, with only 52k views. that's ridiculous! do people not care or has this matter not been spread enough?

[Sanguine4321]

Why does Kim have to be so selfish to do that to other humans? why cant he just let everyone get on with their lives and just be kind

[xXiTaKeOuTZzXx]

easy for you to say when you have them. If you knew what it was like living in a place like North Korea then you would have a very different point of view

[xXiTaKeOuTZzXx]

we do. some countries violate them though

[bilw653]

You goddamn liberal idiots. If more Asian countries were like Kim there wouldn't be so many people on this earth, polluting it and endangering species like tigers and such. Fuck human rights.

[bakersfieldmusicnow]

yep hope the people there do what Iceland did...and i would hope the u.s.a. people will stand behind them.

[donaldc5166]

Your not going to change those sick minds in N. Korea that run the country! They can only be stopped by brut force!

[Hans Bjorn Kroneberg]

It really wasn't a story. It was a very condensed synopsis of some verifiable historical facts. But anyway it is all "water under the Bridge" now. May there be peace on Earth soon.