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catman
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 Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2010 6:06 pm Post subject: 200,000 Political Prisoners Held in N.Korean Camps |
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Some 200,000 political prisoners are being held in concentration camps in North Korea, and some have been executed by shooting or hanging, according to South Korea's National Human Rights Commission.
The commission on Wednesday released a study of conditions in North Korean political prison camps based on testimony from North Korean defectors collected for the commission by the Database Center for North Korean Human Rights last year.
The study says there are six political concentration camps in the North. The first was opened in the 1950s, and the number rose to 13 during the 1970s. Since the 1980s some have been closed.
Prisoners are only ever released from one of the camps, Yodok in South Hamgyong Province. At the other five they are held for life.
At some of the camps, prisoners act as "capos" administering beatings and torture to fellow inmates. One defector testified that while in a camp, he had witnessed his mother and elder brother publicly executed for attempting to escape.
Seven defectors who were inmates or in command positions in North Korean camps between the 1960s and 2006 were interviewed intensively. Some 322 others questioned fled North Korea between the 1990s and 2009 but had not been confined to concentration camps.
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young_clinton
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| Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2010 8:56 pm Post subject: |
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| Let's threaten China and then invade North Korea and end this madness the way it should have been ended a long time ago. |
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mises
Joined: 05 Nov 2007
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| Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 7:53 am Post subject: |
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Violence erupts in N.Korea
SEOUL - ANGRY North Koreans have attacked security agents as hunger mounts following a crackdown on market trade, according to reports on Tuesday by groups in Seoul with contacts in the communist state.
Unrest has emerged in the isolated state since a shock currency revaluation by Pyongyang last November worsened shortages of food and other goods, they said.
Daily NK, an online newspaper hostile to the regime in the North, said 'a number of people' assaulted a group of security agents on patrol on Monday in markets in Pyongsung, South Pyongan province. It gave no details of any casualties.
The paper, citing a group of defectors, said a fight had also broken out recently between residents and security agents monitoring the crackdown in Hyesan in Yanggang province.
As the fight turned nasty, it said, one resident snatched a gun from an agent and fired at random - leaving one security official in critical condition.
The North told its citizens on Nov 30 to swap old banknotes for new at a rate of 100 to one. But it capped the amount which could be exchanged, reportedly wiping out some people's savings and causing widespread anger. The revaluation was widely seen as an attempt by the regime to reassert control over the economy and clamp down on growing free-market activities. -- AFP |
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catman
Joined: 18 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 8:34 pm Post subject: |
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| A rebellion at last? |
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JMO
Joined: 18 Jul 2006
Location: Daegu
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| Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 9:05 pm Post subject: |
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| I'm an extremely selfish person but how would a rebellion in north korea effect us here in the south? |
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young_clinton
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| Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2010 11:46 am Post subject: |
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| I'm an extremely selfish person but how would a rebellion in north korea effect us here in the south? |
Kim Jong Il might start a war just to maintain his power base. Actually there was a book just written where the author says he is very capable of doing that. |
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Jeonmunka
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| Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2010 4:17 pm Post subject: |
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| It'd be a very short war. |
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