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By: Manasia Cobb

Who is involved?• North Korean dictator Kim Jong

Un and also dead father, Kim Jong Il, have allegedly killed millions of North Koreans by either starving them to death or forcibly sending them to a number of political prisoner camps similar to the styles of Hitler and Stalin.

• Blindly, the world has been preoccupied with North Korea’s nuclear weapons that it did not occur the organized crimes there.

What’s the issue?• Being a Christian in North

Korea will most definitely send you to a prison or a concentration camp, or to be executed. But even if you behave in a manner that the government deems as a threat can send you away. A loyal communist can be imprisoned if he or she is the unfortunate family member of a person labeled as a traitor.

• North Korea punishes three generations of an offender’s family.

When & Where?• Today in North Korea, an estimated 30,000 Christians

are tortured in a number of concentration camps as we speak.

• An alarming number of over 300,00 Koreans total are in concentration camps for multiple reasons.

• These styles of intense horror and terror utilized by these camps were adopted by Hitler and Stalin and have been around for decades.

• Knowledge of these camps has been ignored!

Specific Camps• Camp 22- located at northeastern tip of North Korea; Camp

22 is said to hold 50,000 men, women, and children. Also, is the most brutal and is lifelong detention.

• Camp 16- By the “The Hidden Gulag,” Camp 16 is a place of exile for families of the condemned.

• Camp 14- Part of a system of political prisons thought to be the largest in the world and where an estimated 150,000 prisoners and their families live.

Why?• The severity of the North Korean concentration camps can be

explained by the dictator style of leadership and corruption in their ideology of juche or self-reliance.

• After the Soviet Union collapsed (only ally) their main support dwindled and North Korea’s rationing system was failing.

• North Korea began to work under a social structure of loyalty to the Kim family due to the economic depression after the USSR in 1994.

• This regime of a rationing system continued to be a serious flaw and because of this North Korea lost its confidence.

• They then depended on the abuse of political endeavors and hostility and blame against their own people began to surface because of this.

• Because of flaws with North Korea as a whole the entire society has to suffer, well everyone besides the Kim family.

• There is no type of freedom (religious, movement, speech, or even information) and any type of stepping out of line or a threat results in these methods of concentration camps.

Illustrations by Kwon Hyo Jin describing North Korean Camp experience by former prisoner Mr Kim Kwand-il

What is being done to help? What can YOU do?

• On March 21, 2013, the United Nations Human Rights Council founded the Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea).

• The Human Rights Council Resolution determined to investigate the violations of human rights in North Korea, with a view to ensuring full accountability and for violations that may amount to crimes against humanity. North Korea has denied every accusation or ignored it.

***YOU can sign a Letter of Confession to Kim Jong Un along with 93,691 and counting people around the world. This letter not only brings awareness to the human rights issue at hand but also gives a voice to the men, women, and children not being heard in these camps. http://www.letterofconfession.com

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Cable News Network, n.d. Web. 22 May 2015.• "The Voice of the Martyrs." The Voice of the Martyrs. N.p., n.d. Web. 22

May 2015.• "OneFreeKorea." OneFreeKorea. N.p., n.d. Web. 22 May 2015.• "Survivor of North Korean Prison Wants World Not to Repeat Holocaust-

era Inaction." Jewish Telegraphic Agency. N.p., 20 June 2013. Web. 22 May 2015.

• Stuart, Hunter. "North Korea Atrocities 'Strikingly Similar' To Nazis, UN Says." The Huffington Post. TheHuffingtonPost.com, n.d. Web. 22 May 2015.

• North Korea." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, n.d. Web. 22 May 2015.• "North Korea: Absolute Power and Absolute Corruption." North Korea:

Absolute Power and Absolute Corruption. N.p., n.d. Web. 22 May 2015.• "The People's Challenges - Liberty in North Korea." Liberty in North

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