Even though we are in the 21st century, there are several horrible prison camps in North Korea. Polotical inmates live under the most undesireble condition in this prison camps. As we see in the article, "North Korean political prison camps growing - Amnesty" on the BBC News (2011).
Amnasty international( a rights group)has published the image of this prison camps and the document details accounts that covered torture, starvation and mass executions. According to Amnasty, the scale of these camps are increasing, "A comparison of the latest pictures with satellite imagery from 2001 indicates "a significant increase in the scale of the camps" " (2011,¶ 8). However, the North Korea goverment refused to accept that these prison camps really exist. The former prisoners at Yodok camp said that they had to work in a bad condition.Also, they had suffered violent torture and received inhumane treatment.
I think these political prison camps should be cancled because they invade their prisonners' human rights. They should treat these prisonners in a proper way. Also, these camps show the violent of the undeveloped communist notion which is worsening the public image of North Korea.Other nations might ban North Korea from international trade. Moreover, the goverment need to provide more food to these camps. The goverment will reduce their budget if they let their inmates grow rice, vegetables and pigs for food. It is not fair to let their inmates eat rats or animal waste while the gorverment staffs and prison guards have better meals. Furthermore, North Korea has already had a bunch of rivals that want to have some excuses to interfere in the North Korea military. They might have a problem with other powerful countries because of their terrible prison condition.
References
North Korean political prison camps growing - Amnesty. (2011, May 1). BBC News. Retrieved May 4, 2011 from http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-13272198
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ReplyDeleteI agree with you that North Korea should stop treat their own prisoners badly. Even they made something wrong but they should be treated as a human. In my opinion, the covered torture, starvation and mass executions are cruel and morally wrong. The executions are the last thing that the government should think about. Instead of kill them with no merci. They can choose to punish them in another way. To illustrate; let them go out and clean the street, construct the building or street. I mean there are lots of job that a human can do for the last of his life. Why don’t they save the prisoner’s life to be more useful for develop their own country.
I believe that the world know how aggressive of North Korea is, but it’s hard to check what are they doing now. North Korea is still closed country. Sometimes they play the role as a little innocent kid. The government doesn’t care how the world will look at them. They have their own solid reasons to do what they think it’s right and good for their people.
I love your ideas Art. There are several types of work that the prisoners can do. It will be benefit to other citizens if government use these workers for public work.
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ReplyDeleteI can't agree with you that the North Korean government "do what they think it’s right and good for their people". They could not be so foolish as to believe that their disastrous social or economic policies are good for their people at all. The truth is that the government enslaves their people to make a very small elite rich adn powerful. And that small number of rich and powerful government rulers throw people into prison because they disagree with the ugly laws and immoral policies. The article that Pree has blogged is about "North Korea's political prison camps" ("North Korean policital prison", 2011, ¶ 1). The people being tortured have not done anything wrong at all - they are not murderers; they are not thieves; they are not rapists. Their only crime is to be an innocent threat to an evil government. And that crime is nothing wrong - they should not be punished at all is what Amnesty argues, having "urged the secretive state to immediately close all the camps" (¶ 4), and I agree with Amnesty.
And since Pree agrees with you that the prisoners should be in prison and punished, I guess I disagree with her, too. No punishment can be just or moral for people who have done nothing wrong.
Wrong or right is up to the attitude of a person. The government might think that those people are wrong because they believe in communism. I do agree that this camp should be closed. Nevertheless, I strongly feel that the government might not close it because they always do what they want.
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ReplyDeleteI agree that the North Korean government will do what they want - they always do.
But your idea that "wrong or right is up to the attitude of a person" (May 7, 2011 9:55 PM) is the same as the idea that Neiva suggested in one of her comments on Law, and I strongly disagree with it.
Why do you think that "wrong or right is up to the attitude of a person"? And what exactly do you mean when you say that? Perhaps I've misunderstood your idea, and it isn't something I think is dangerously wrong. (I also think it's a common idea today, but being common cannot normally ever make any idea right - just popular.)
I don't think it can be right to throw people into prison as the North Korean government does according to teh report you have blogged. Just as I don't think that China's harsh suppression of free speech for Chinese citizens can be right.
I think, this is really the hell on earth! Last year, I read an article about of this inhuman practice of prisons in North Korea and the reports of the people that get to flee of these spaces are really of a brutal atrocity. The majority this people are Christians confined after the occupation of the country by the communism for they be used as hand of slave work in the production of equipments for export and with this return atomic weapons and missiles are built. I think that this type of the Korean government's action is contrary the all of the human rights and it already passed of the hour of the international authorities take some attitudes with reference to this category of brutal practices for the world.
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