Oppression in North Korea

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The moon that shines over all of us - is the moon that shines over the North Korean gulags - The sun that shines over all of us - Is the sun that shines over the North Korean labor camps - But the faces of that sun and moon - Don't look the same to them as they do to us



Articles general

• Camp 22 - "Camp 22 ... is a North Korean prison for political prisoners and their relatives. The camp is the largest concentration camp in North Korea and is thought to hold 50,000 prisoners." - Wikipedia
  
• Human experimentation in North Korea - "The reports of North Korean human experimentation describe suffocation of prisoners in gas chambers, testing deadly chemical weapons, surgery without anesthesia, and damaging the brains of people to use them as zombies for target practice." - Wikipedia
• Human rights in North Korea - "...it is clear that the government of North Korea controls virtually all activities within the nation. Citizens are not allowed to freely speak their minds[5] and the government detains those who criticize the regime." - Wikipedia
• Kaechon concentration camp - "Kaechon concentration camp... is a prison in North Korea with many political prisoners." - Wikipedia
  
• The Aquariums of Pyongyang - "The [book] Aquariums of Pyongyang, by Kang Chol-Hwan and Pierre Rigoulot, is an account of the imprisonment of Kang Chol-Hwan and his family in the Yodok concentration camp in North Korea." - Wikipedia
  

Blogs

• Undercover In The Secret State North Korea - "NORTH KOREA does not only have the worlds worst record on religious freedom. Kim Jong Il is ruling his starving people with a terror regime unmatched in human history. " - Religious Freedom - Jan 19, 2011

Articles news

• North Korea may have abducted as many as 180,000 people over the past six decades, according to a report by a United States-based human rights group - Radio New Zealand News - May 13, 2011
  
• N.Korea 'Has Far More Prisons Than Previously Believed' - " North Korean Human Rights Archives said the regime operates 210 detention centers and 210 labor camps, 23 prisons, 5 indoctrination camps, 27 holding facilities, and 6 political prison camps..." - The Chosun Ilbo - April 28, 2011
  
• NK defector testifies to horrors at concentration camp - "A North Korean defector and activist testified this week at an international forum here to horrors he had suffered while imprisoned in a concentration camp in the communist country." - The Korea Times - March 16, 2011
  
• Tanks 'Ready to Be Used Against Uprising in Pyongyang' - "The North Korean Army's Guard Command, a military unit tasked with protecting leader Kim Jong-il, is hiding scores of tanks in Pyongyang to quell any popular uprising..." - The Chosun Ilbo - Feb 26, 2011
  
• North Korea's forgotten crisis - "The most pressing issue that must be addressed in North Korea is undoubtedly the inhumane treatment of its people behind the walls of its secret internment camps. Indeed, there are an estimated 150,000 to 200,000 people in a total of six concentration camps operated by the government in the central and northeastern areas of the country." - The Japan Times - Jan 10, 2011

Documents

• Falling To The Ground Of Starvation And Crossing The River Of Death - A North Korean tells his memoirs - He has stayed underground in China since he escaped from North Korea.

Music

• Korean MV : South of border - The west sky - About a refugee from North - to South Korea - 4:14 min

See also

• Features of North Korea

Videos

• BORN AND RAISED IN A CONCENTRATION CAMP - "[The story of] Dong Hyuk Shin, a 26-year-old North Korean defector born and raised in a concentration camp. Shin was born on Nov. 19, 1982 and called the camp home until 2005. While at the camp, he endured daily beatings, torture, starvation-level rations, saw forced abortions and even witnessed the public execution of his mother and brother in 1996." - 1:06:46

• * Human flesh being sold in the market (North Korean song of sorrow) - "The blood of our loved ones grows into a river..." sung by David K.O Hannah - shocking information, cannibalism in North Korea (7:30 min)

• Inside North Korea - exclusive footage - "A growing group of North Korean dissidents are risking their lives to secretly film inside the repressive regime before smuggling the tapes across the Chinese border to show the outside world what is happening to their countrymen."- The Telegraph - Nov. 28, 2010 - 2:48 min
• The terrible government of North Korea - playlist of 27 videos including 'The North Korean killing fields."

Websites

• Holocaust Now: Looking Down Into Hell at Camp 22 - "Camp 22 is one of the largest, and almost certainly the most terrible, if only for the inhuman experiments witnesses say were done to the men, women, children, and even infants sent there." - Page with much information and many videos and maps about this camp and the holocaust in North Korea - One Free Korea - Feb 18, 2007

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