Did you hear any of thier stories?
I would love to hear them as my heart goes out to those people
2006-07-11 20:45:34 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
SEOUL, South Korea - A former North Korean political prisoner Tuesday offered grim details of life in a communist regime prison camp, saying he saw many inmates die from overwork and starvation.
The ex-inmate, who survived the prison camp at Yodok, about 70 miles northwest of Pyongyang, said a former defector was beaten to death for having contacted Christian representatives in China, he said.
"Most people died of malnutrition and its complications," said the inmate, who used the pseudonym Kim Chol-soo to protect relatives in the North from retaliation. Wearing a dark hat and hospital mask to hide his face, Kim told a news conference that prisoners received a starvation ration of 21 ounces of food a day.
2006-07-12 10:30:38 · answer #1 · answered by aebin 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No........ I do not personally know any North Koreans. But I did see a program on TV a couple of nights ago about the society of North Korea. The people live in absolute fear. Several brave men sneaked into N.K. with video phones and recorded executions in several towns where all the people in the villages were required to come and watch... men, women and children. The program went on to show how a famine in the country a few years ago killed thousands of people. It showed people walking by dead people in the street. It's still happening today. The videos showed children having to steal to eat and if they got caught they were beaten right there in the street.... even little 8 year old boys! It showed how foreign aid (bags of rice) don't really get to the poor. They are bartered and traded to the highest bidder in the open market places. The recipient is the one with the most money, so the poor lose out and continue to starve. Most N.K. citizens live in horrible, deplorable conditions.
N.Koreans are not allowed to communicate with the outside world. If any of them are caught on phones, cell phones, computers etc. they are cruely punished and sometimes imprisoned or even executed. The government wants its citizens to think that N.K. is "paradise". They do not want the people to know how much better the outside world is. They want to keep them ignorant and under complete, absolute communist control. And it's all done by keeping them fearing for their lives... on a daily basis. Occassionally, some citizens risk their lives and cross the river into China.... but it's a deadly risk. Soldiers on the border have to be bribed for a chance to cross.
Unfortunately, the government leaders are insane. It's so scary to think that N.K. has all these missles and the position they are putting other countries in. I hate the threats... and the uneasiness. However, it makes me mad when people think the only solution is to bomb that country. All I keep thinking about is the millions of innocent, starving people who don't deserve to be caught in the crossfire between their insane government and the rest of the world.
2006-07-12 04:07:49 · answer #2 · answered by Primrose 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The North Koreans are a Propagandist ploy by the South Koreans Communists Party funded by CIA and your friends at Petroleum CEOs to take your attention away from whatever is real in this world.
North Koreans all lie, except and utill they become South Koreans or Chinesies. But you see, they are no longer North Koreans, ergo they do not exist.
2006-07-12 03:58:21 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you've ever lived in China, as I have, you can go right up to their door and speak with them. They cross the border more-or-less freely (obviously they must return). Don't believe everything you hear in the press. Of course, that isn't to say the condition of the people could not be improved.
2006-07-12 03:51:31 · answer #4 · answered by Pandak 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
all i know is if you look at North Korea during the night from space there are no lights, except were that happey head dude lives, pingyangpong.
Were is the UN? bet he is doing pol pok stuff right now.
2006-07-12 03:48:30 · answer #5 · answered by uughh 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes my history teacher, but she never told us any stories
2006-07-12 03:49:20 · answer #6 · answered by theuntouchablejdub 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No because their violently repressed by the evil dictatorship!
2006-07-12 03:49:14 · answer #7 · answered by simo9352 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no but i eat alot of
korean dishes
does that count?
2006-07-12 03:47:30 · answer #8 · answered by johnny_p_hall 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no ma'm
But Kamsa hanida
2006-07-12 03:48:19 · answer #9 · answered by miss_rimi1989 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no
2006-07-12 03:47:43 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋