First man escapes N.K. prison camp.

[JimPghPA]

Subject: First man escapes N.K. prison camp.

There has been a news clip on TV and it is also on youtube, about an interview with a young man who recently at the age of 23 escaped from a North Korea prison camp that he lived in since his birth. And the story of the thousands of people who live in these prison camps in North Korea is something similar to the way concentration camps were ran during WW2.

It makes you think that this mans story should be brought to the attention of the United Nations. But then what could they do? And the part about the guards at the camps having orders to kill all the prisoners if the government is in danger of collapse makes one think that the only way these poor souls could ever be liberated would be if a top notch military team were to take over those camps all at the same time.

It is amazing that even today places like this exist, and people are being treated like less than animals. And while this man is being introduced to literally a whole world that he had no idea existed, if thousands of people with a background similar to his ever were freed, there would have to be some additional efforts made to educate them to how to live in the society they would be living with.

I do not know how to go about supporting the tens or hundreds of thousands of people who are living in these prisons if you can call them that, but it seams that the more people who know about it the better.


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[ls1mike]

I saw the story. Crazy! Unbelievable!

 

[RiceCake]

Or he's an NK intelligence agent, which is becoming common.

Either that or kudos. Managed to escape a seriously brutal prison /and/ somehow cross the most heavily defended borders on earth.

 

[rjundi]

My heart broke for that person and children raised(some from birth) in that environment.

They kill kids for relatively minor infractions in front of others.

 

[Donald]

Its one of the few bad nations left on earth. But we need to let diplomacy work rather than use force.

 

[mechtech2]

Russia has area of Jews [millions] segregated and out of contact with the world.
My point is that there are more horrid countries than N. Korea alone.

 

[PandaBear]

This is sad, but I think the only way for a dictatorship like this to migrate to wealthy and democracy is by chance to have the military power landed on a dictator that has a heart.

Japan transformed, Taiwan transformed, and while China is still not a great place, at least the people are living better and allowed more freedom than back in the Cultural Revolution days. I'm sure no matter how strong NK's military is, a dictator would one day (maybe a son that inherit the dictatorship from papa) realize it is better to build a good nation than to be a hillbilly with guns and barracks.

 

[Nick R]

Originally Posted By: Donald
Its one of the few bad nations left on earth. But we need to let diplomacy work rather than use force.



Diplomacy requires both parties to be willing to cooperate and diplome. The North Korean Government has no interest in doing anything except maintaining a stranglehold, iron fist on it's populace, who don't know that something other than what they experience exists.

Diplomacy is great when it works, but difficult when everyone else already perceives you as a threat- The Illusive Man (Mass Effect 2)

 

[Blaze]

Now I can see why the people of NK are so easily brainwashed...if you do something wrong they arrest and place three generations of your family in these horrible concentration camps.

 

[buster]

Go to youtube and type in Vice North Korea. 3 part, short series. Probably the most bizarre country in the world.

 

[JimPghPA]

Months ago there was something about N.K. on TV regarding how only the top government location have electricity. The average citizen in N.K. does not have any electricity. Even the average town or village has no electricity.

They showed a picture of N.K. from space a night. There were a few (very few) lights, and those were the palaces of the top government officials.

Anyone could see from that TV article that in reality if N.K. ever got into any war against any decent military, that it would be very easy to target the locations of the top officials. Just wait for a dark night with low moon or no moon light, and target every place with a light on just after dusk. Easy pickings if anyone ever had to retaliate against them if they ever tried something.

The sad part about the no electric to like %99.999 percent of that population, is that the free speech (or free distribution of knowledge) that comes along with the internet, cell phones, cell phone cameras, and all the electronic means of sharing data, is totally absent in N.K. if the people don't even have access to enough electricity to light a night light.

 

[Spazdog]

I saw a news article highlighting a visit to DPRK. It was surreal.

The people seemed to be well educated, but when asked if they knew what democracy was, they responded, "It's a noun."
They either did not know, or could not say and didn't seem to be interested in knowing.

I've also read about North Korean defectors. They are astonished at how the South Koreans eat. "You have meat at every meal? Is this all for me?"

 

[Tempest]

NK is not just a military dictatorship, it is a military society. The leaders at the top see the people as soldiers that must be directed from the top down without personal or property rights.

Just as generals send troops into battle knowing that some will be killed, so the NK leadership directs it's populace. Loses of people "for the greater good" are as acceptable as the leadership deems them to be. "Troops" (general populace) that disobey orders must be dealt with severely and immediately and that is why you get military concentration camps for everyone.

Without food, the people have no energy to rise up and have no weapons with which to rebel, anyway.

This model was made "popular" among communists by Mao and the destructive power of such ideas was made clear in the Great Leap Forward where 45 million people died in 4 years. The vast majority due to starvation.

The NK regime has essentially kept the same model for decades.

 

[JimPghPA]

Originally Posted By: RiceCake
Or he's an NK intelligence agent, which is becoming common.

Either that or kudos. Managed to escape a seriously brutal prison /and/ somehow cross the most heavily defended borders on earth.


Assuming he is not an N.K. agent; there is not way of knowing but in those conditions if one finally escaped the entire chain of obstacles he had to go through, one question to ask though it will never be answered, is I wonder how many others tried and did not make it?