I believed that Concentration Camps were a thing of the past. I thought they died along with hitler....
hey xanga, i havent blogged in a long long time but i feel that i need to let all of you guys know about this subject. it is very serious and terrible.
im assuming you all know that korea is seperated into two segments: north korea and south korea.
south korea is one of the most thriving and rich countries, unlike its counter part, north korea, which is one of the poorest. north korea is led by a man named Kim Jong-Il ( pronounced, kim- jung-ill ) his father called himself god, and so kim jong il calls himself the son of god. he is a cruel dictator. ( their will be videos posted at the end )
This is one of the most secluded and secretive countires. it is very VERY rare for people to go out, and for people to go in. it is hard to find info about the situation.
the majority of the population ( roughly 95% ) do not own televisions, phones, ipods, computers, or anything electronic. in fact, the majority lack electicity.
( this is a picture from satalite, the bright place is south korea and above it is north korea. )
now, if the people were just poor, id probably say something like, "lets fund them" or something. but the reason why im blogging this is far more terrible then just being poor.
( i forgot to mention that they do own one electronic: a broadcasting system that turns on at 6am everymorning and tells the people how lucky they are and how much better they are because in south korea people are so poor that they are "eating human flesh" to stay alive. )
every household must have two pictures in their home on their wall. one of kim jong-il, and one of his father. if these pictures are damaged in ANY WAY no matter how small, every single person in that house, and all their reletives are thrown into CONCENTRATION CAMPS ( ill talk about those later )
if you are caught will a cell phone: you and your whole family go to concentration camps. if you steal food, even small amounts: you and your whole family are thrown into concentration camps. if you say anything even remotely bad about north korea or the kim jong il family, you and your whole family go to concentration camps. if you try to escape from north korea and are caught: concentration camps whole family. ( and if you succeed in getting to SK, your family stills goes to the camps. if you are christian: concentration camps, whole family. if you talk to south korea in any form: concentration camps, whole family.there is a statue of kim jong il's father, and every north korean citizen MUST go to tht statiue and bow down to it once a year, if they do not then they go to concentration camps ( along with the whole family )
now to the camps themselves....
these camps are known as "hostile camps"
there is very little food and every one is starving. people are beaten by the soldiers there in order to "keep them in line". a NK soldier escaped and told his story. he said that when they are trained, they are taught to think of the people as animal and less then human. in the camps they perform experiments such as, locking a woman and her baby in a room hile they sprayed poison gas inside to record their reactions.
one person escaped from the camp and told a story of a woman who was raped by a soldier. when the signs of her pregnancy were evident, the soldiers tied her to a tree, took a knife and cut open her stomach. they pulled the baby out and threw it on the ground. it died and the woman died soon after. another escaping tells of how one person had found a small peice of corn in cow poop. he tried to eat it, but the guards saw him and began to beat him severly, kicking him in the mud.
i have pictures, but if you have problems with seeing graphical images then dont continue because....some of them are very brutal.

( women who were badly beaten )
( this woman escpaed from north korea, her leg had been ripped apart in several places )
( this is Kim Jong Il )
( a baby starving )

I also provided links to videos and i ask that you guys check them out. some are brutal but, i ask that you watch them.
North Korean Torture/Interogation ( a video of a woman being interogated )
Escapees from North Korea1
Escapees from North Korea2
i ask that you guys raise awarness for whats going on.
there is a Pastor in South Korean who takes people and rescues North Koreans. i ask that you pray for him and for what he is doing. Pray for NK, and pray that Kim Jong Il becomes a changed man.
it truly hurts me, to see such terrible things.....
thank you for reading this~ ( you can also search thge interent, there are many sites of the things happening in North Korea. )