Drawings of Abuse in NK Prison Camps Serve as Haunting Reminder of Regime's Brutality

[DonViejo]

by Amy Russo | 1:44 pm, June 12th, 2018



As President Donald Trump begins an unprecedented relationship with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, serious questions have been raised as to how the regime’s record of crimes against humanity could be overlooked. Just after the two leaders met in Singapore, Trump appeared on ABC News where he claimed that Kim’s “country does love him” and North Koreans “have a great fervor.”

The remarks are downright shocking to anyone who’s even slightly familiar with the harsh dictatorship that deprives its people of basic resources and threatens them with political imprisonment if they are suspected of stepping out of line.

A 2014 report from the UN Human Rights Council is a jaw-dropping reminder of those injustices with which North Korea’s citizens have been forced to cope, shedding light upon the harsh conditions of the country’s prison camps.

Illustrations by Kwon Hyo Jin given to the the UNHRC’s Commission of Inquiry by Kim Kwang-il, a former detainee, depict scenes of torture, starvation and rat infestations within the camps.

In one image, two men appear bony and thin, and are shown eating a snake and a rat, while another drawing depicts a wheel barrel of limp bodies being hauled off by prisoners as an armed guard trails behind.




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[flotsam]

1. "another drawing depicts a wheel barrel of limp bodies"

except the word you seek is "wheelbarrow", however the item pictured is more accurately described as a tumbril or simply as a cart...What on earth happened to humanity degrees and English majors?

[ret5hd]

3. I am glad you picked up on the important aspects of this story!!!

[flotsam]

5. That the story is appalling is obvious...

But they are torturing and disfiguring the language I love to read and pretending to be a news site. I am a high school drop-out who continued learning when my schooling was done. What is their excuse for hiring "writers" who may hold degrees but cannot function at my (absolutely normal) reading level?

[jmowreader]

4. The word you seek is "humanities degrees"

"Humanity" went out the window in 2010, when the teabaggers took over Congress. And "inhumanity" came to full flower on January 20, 2017, when Trump Jong Un was sworn in and gave an inaugural address eerily similar to one a certain Austrian corporal-turned-failed watercolorist took the reins of power in Germany in the 1930s.

[gratuitous]

2. Everything's all better now, though

All the media people say so, and there's even folks here at DU claiming that the Korean situation is more peaceful now than it was just a few months ago. I expect any day now that Otto Warmbier will rise from the dead, and Kim's uncle will have recovered from that fatal poisoning. You just gotta believe!