Choke in the truth of a million dead

From an article on North Korea's prison camps in The Economist:

Even prison guards attempt to escape the country.

Many prisoners are stunted and deformed from back-breaking work, 12 hours a day, seven days a week, with so little food that they eat rats and snakes, and pick through cow dung for grains of corn.

Whole families, including children, are incarcerated for "guilt by association". Under an edict from Kim Il Sung in 1972, up to three generations must be punished in order to wipe out the "seed" of class enemies.

Crimes include a failure to wipe the dust off a portrait of Kim the patriarch; having been a diplomat or student in eastern Europe in the late 1980s and therefore having witnessed the collapse of socialism; having contact (usually in China) with South Koreans; or being a Christian.

That the world continues to abide North Korea is mental to me. North Korea is Jerry Sandusky and we are Penn State.

From what I gather, America doesn't intervene because China would probably take action on behalf of North Korea again.

In the detention centres near China, North Korean women suspected of being made pregnant by Han Chinese are subject to forced abortions. (The state preaches an extreme gospel of racial purity.)

Earth to China: You are allied with people who believe that your ethnicity is toxic!


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