North Korean Death Camps
Everybody hates Hitler. Everybody might have to hate North Korea.
North Korea has hidden gulag, U.S. rights group says
New report says more than 150,000 North Koreans incarcerated
The Associated Press Posted: Apr 10, 2012 1:39 AM ET Last Updated: Apr 10, 2012 6:37 AM ET
A new report says more than 150,000 North Koreans are incarcerated in a Soviet-style, hidden gulag despite the communist government's denial it holds political prisoners.
The report released Tuesday by the U.S.-based Committee for Human Rights in North Korea is based on interviews with 60 former prisoners and guards. It includes satellite images of what are described as prison labour camps and penitentiaries.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2012/04/10/north-korea-gulag-prison.htmlIn the south of China there was Pol Pot's Cambodia killing millions of innocent Cambodians. In the East of China there is Kim's North Korea killing millions of innocent North Koreans not only in death camps but also in starving villages.
10 April 2012 Last updated at 14:57 GMT
Report sheds fresh light on North Korean gulag
By Charles Scanlon
BBC News
The research backs previous evidence that more than 150,000 political prisoners are being held in North Korea.
The authors are calling for an international commission of inquiry to investigate.
The report - by the Washington-based Committee for Human Rights in North Korea - uses detailed satellite photographs to identify barracks, work sites and execution grounds in forced labour camps hidden in remote mountain areas.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-17668076One sad lesson is that it is a war that freed Judaists having been put into Nazi's death camps. Without WWII, European Judaists could not have been completely safe from Nazis. But do we need a war to liberate those North Koreans in the death camps?
US: NKorean prison camps worse than Soviet gulag
By MATTHEW PENNINGTON,
Last Updated: Tuesday, April 10, 2012
The report, is based its report on interviews with 60 former prisoners and guards, says the camp system was initially modeled in the 1950s on the Soviet gulag to punish "wrong thinkers" and those belonging to the "wrong political class" or religious persuasion.
It cites estimates from North Korean state security agency officials who defected to South Korea that the camp system holds between 150,000 and 200,000 people out of a total population of around 24 million. It urges North Korea to allow the International Committee of the Red Cross access, and to dismantle the camps.
King compared the vast number of North Korean detainees with the hundreds imprisoned in Soviet prison camps in the 1970s. He cited anecdotal reports that people have faced arrest, torture and imprisonment for making a joke about North Korean leaders and being overheard by government informants.
He said conditions in North Korea are worse today than in the repressive Soviet Union during the 1960s to 1980s.
The committee's report described different kinds of detention facilities, including penal labor colonies where it says political detainees are imprisoned without judicial process for mostly lifetime sentences in mining, logging or agricultural enterprises.There are some people in the world that are checking the death camps in North Korea even using Google Earth.
http://www.baynews9.com/content/news/baynews9/news/article.html/content/news/articles/ap/2012/04/10/US_NKorean_prison_camps_worse_than_Soviet_gulag/
North Koreas' Largest Concentration Camps on Google Earth
Despite reports of the use of an experimental gas chamber and experimentation on human subjects at Camp 22, there is no evidence that the camps engage in industrial-scale extermination operations such as those at Auschwitz. What we know of the camps’ brutal conditions suggest that they are comparable to those in the Nazi camps at Mauthausen and Buchenwald, which largely killed through a combination of exhaustion, disease, starvation, and arbitrary brutality.
The camps do not exist merely to punish and isolate potential dissidents; they are also the foundation of the North Korean regime’s system of domestic terror. The system enforces obedience and suppresses thoughtcrime by threatening not just the life of the dissenter, but also the lives of his loved ones, according to Oh Gyeung Seob, a research fellow at the Sejong Institute:
"The National Security Agency conducts surveillance to generate fear during the process of uncovering, investigating, punishing and purging political prisoners. Prison camps create more fear by treating existing political prisoners inhumanly," he explained, connecting the security forces and prison camp roles in totalitarian North Korea.
Particularly, he explained, "The North Korean system is structured around the fear spread by the existence of political prison camps, meaning that public political opposition from citizens is impossible. Every person and the people around them are harmed by the system of guilt by association; therefore they suppress their political opposition of their own accord."
The camps may also play a role in the regime's nuclear weapons development. Because of the proximity of one camp, Camp 16, to North Korea's nuclear and missile testing sites at Cape Musudan, forced labor from that camp may also be connected to North Korea's WMD development (see this page for Google Earth images of North Korean nuclear sites).
http://www.freekorea.us/camps/
(to be continued...)
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Gen 4:15 And the LORD said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the LORD set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him.
Gen 4:16 And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.
Gen 4:17 And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch.
Gen 4:18 And unto Enoch was born Irad: and Irad begat Mehujael: and Mehujael begat Methusael: and Methusael begat Lamech.
Gen 4:19 And Lamech took unto him two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.
Gen 4:20 And Adah bare Jabal: he was the father of such as dwell in tents, and of such as have cattle.
Gen 4:21 And his brother's name was Jubal: he was the father of all such as handle the harp and organ.
Gen 4:22 And Zillah, she also bare Tubalcain, an instructer of every artificer in brass and iron: and the sister of Tubalcain was Naamah.
Gen 4:23 And Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah, Hear my voice; ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech: for I have slain a man to my wounding, and a young man to my hurt.
Gen 4:24 If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold.
Gen 4:25 And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name Seth: For God, said she, hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.