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Seoul to Abstain Again on N.K. Human Rights Resolution
The government has decided to abstain from voting on a UN Human Rights Commission (UNHRC) resolution condemning violations of human rights in North Korea, it was learned from government sources on Thursday.
Chosun Ilbo (April 7, 2005)
http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200504/200504070015.html

An Auschwitz in Korea
It is not exactly news that the communist regime of Kim Jong Il has sent millions of North Koreans to early graves. Estimates back in 1998 were that as many as 800,000 people were dying in North Korea each year from starvation and malnutrition caused by Kim's ruthless and irrational policies. World Vision, a Christian relief organization, calculated that 1 million to 2 million North Koreans had been killed by "a full-scale famine" largely of Pyongyang's creation.

Nor is it breaking news that North Korea operates a vicious prison gulag -- "not unlike the worst labor camps built by Mao and Stalin in the last century," as NBC News reported more than a year ago. Some 200,000 men, women, and children are held in these slave-labor camps; hundreds of thousands of others have perished in them over the years.
by Jeff Jacoby, Boston Globe (February 8, 2004)
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2004/02/08/an_auschwitz_in_korea/

The North Korean Holocaust. Yes. Holocaust.
by Judith Apter Klinghoffer
http://hnn.us/articles/10253.html

N. Korean Defectors Testify About Human Rights Abuses Back Home and in China
By Kurt Achin
http://www.voanews.com/english/2005-03-16-voa27.cfm

North Korea Leadership Sees Human Rights as Subversive
http://tokyo.usembassy.gov/e/p/tp-gl0224.html