Examples Of Inhumanity In North Korea

Guilty for Inhumanity: North Korea’s Atrocious and Illegal Acts Torture, rape, and extinction; these are just a few of the terrible acts that happen each day in North Korea’s gulag system. Although North Korea denies the sketches that refugees have created, which detail gruesome scenes and shallow acts against prisoners, stories of what really happen inside North Korea catch the media’s attention frequently, causing a burst of rage in North Korean human rights activists. Recently, a University of Virginia student by the name Otto Warmbier was sentenced to fifteen years of hard labor, just because he thought it would be funny to steal a political banner from his hotel room. While many think that the punishment does not fit the crime, the North
Since no export revenue is being generated, jobs are much harder to create along the seashores, as well as the inland cities and rural communities. North Korea is utterly dependent on imported oil, which was sold to them at a high cost from countries such as the former Soviet Union. Paul Liem, the chairman of the Korea Peace institute, argues that now North Korea must begin to import food, fertilizer, and other goods just so its economy can stay above water. However, North Korea continues to live by its traditional values in terms of foreign exchange, limiting imports on much needed goods from other countries. Holding back on aid from other countries is no simple task for a small country like North Korea (Liem 119). As North Korea scrambles to import much needed goods to an ever increasing population, a widespread famine would not be unlikely, which not only ravaged North Korean communities in the nineties, but is still happening to the bankrupt lower class who can’t afford the basic necessities that they need to
While North Korea’s allies Russia and China hold veto power against the ICC, DPRK leaders could possibly face charges for their heinous crimes against humanity. Adam Taylor, a columnist for Washington Post, explains that the crimes that the DPRK committed against its people led the Commission of Inquiry to compare the crimes to those committed by Nazi Germany during the second world war. The lengthy report released by the COI identified six groups of victims who were affected by the DPRK’s mishandling of human rights laws, such as people who try to flee the country, practicers of non Korean religion, and regular prison inmates are some of the people who were treated poorly by the government (Taylor). While the international community continues to lash out at North Korea, the small country will not listen to outsider propaganda and will continue to harvest their own, which only persuades viewers that their country is right for what they are doing. Danielle Chubb, a professor at Deakin University, claims that the responsibility to protect its citizens holds the DPRK accountable to the international community on key human rights laws and its protection of citizens. The DPRK ministry put out a statement describing its withholding of sovereignty, but also says that they are willing to discuss human rights dialogue with respect to the DPRK’s ethics (Chubb 71). In other words, the