Now, uh, if N. Korea could just stop torturing/murdering people in Gulags, who don't agree with the "supreme leader for life". Check out the great people at HumanRightsWatch.org to help stop this atrocity.
U.S., North Korea change course
San Francisco Chronicle, in an editorial: "It's hard to miss the point. … North Korea blew up a 60-foot cooling tower at its main nuclear complex and invited foreign media to film away. (President) Bush himself read out the change in policy to give it full force. It's a big deal, both sides indicated. … Bush's acceptance of North Korea's gesture came with plenty of caveats. … But his words represent a major course correction. …
... (T)he latest softening of positions is welcome. The slow-dancing dubbed 'confidence building' by negotiators has taken years to produce modest results, but it's eased tensions. It also may have produced a new political product in the White House: a president willing to test, confer and take chances, not just confront and challenge." [...]
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Thursday, July 3, 2008
Friday, June 27, 2008
"900,000 prisoners will be killed if Koreas reunite"
This is the charge of a former North Korean prison guard, now a refugee in the south, who speaks of special plans to eliminate work camp detainees in the case of reunification between the two Koreas.
The most positive step you can take to help these poor people is to go to http://www.amnesty.org/
Your help is needed!
Seoul (AsiaNews) - In case of reunification between the two Koreas, about 900,000 North Koreans will be killed immediately and in silence. They are prisoners of the North Korean gulags, a slave army forced by the regime to live only in order to produce, often imprisoned without any accusation and deprived of any human rights. This is the charge of Ahn Myong Chol, a former North Korean prison guard who fled his country after working in prison camp number 22, and currently a refugee in South Korea.
During a meeting held a few days ago at a South Korean university, the dissident charged: "The world must become more aware of the situation in North Korea, where the regime survives through the terror inflicted on its citizens, and sends millions of people to the labour camps without any justification". According to Ahn, the gulag population is at grave risk: "By my own experience, I know how little the government cares about the fate of those who live in the labour camps. In case of the reunification of the two Koreas, emergency plans are ready to kill all of the prisoners, who otherwise might later become witnesses against the socialist leaders and against the prison guards".
The dissident worked in the gulags from 1987 to 1994. After the arrest of his father and the execution of his entire family - "guilty" of criticising a government decision - he decided to flee. He says of the camps: "They are the worst place in the world and, at the same time, the key to the regime's survival. It uses the gulags as a means for controlling the population through terror, and also as a source of manual labour. For example, camp 22 produces an enormous quantity of coal at almost no cost"
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Read it all at http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=12445&geo=6&size=A
The most positive step you can take to help these poor people is to go to http://www.amnesty.org/
Your help is needed!
Seoul (AsiaNews) - In case of reunification between the two Koreas, about 900,000 North Koreans will be killed immediately and in silence. They are prisoners of the North Korean gulags, a slave army forced by the regime to live only in order to produce, often imprisoned without any accusation and deprived of any human rights. This is the charge of Ahn Myong Chol, a former North Korean prison guard who fled his country after working in prison camp number 22, and currently a refugee in South Korea.
During a meeting held a few days ago at a South Korean university, the dissident charged: "The world must become more aware of the situation in North Korea, where the regime survives through the terror inflicted on its citizens, and sends millions of people to the labour camps without any justification". According to Ahn, the gulag population is at grave risk: "By my own experience, I know how little the government cares about the fate of those who live in the labour camps. In case of the reunification of the two Koreas, emergency plans are ready to kill all of the prisoners, who otherwise might later become witnesses against the socialist leaders and against the prison guards".
The dissident worked in the gulags from 1987 to 1994. After the arrest of his father and the execution of his entire family - "guilty" of criticising a government decision - he decided to flee. He says of the camps: "They are the worst place in the world and, at the same time, the key to the regime's survival. It uses the gulags as a means for controlling the population through terror, and also as a source of manual labour. For example, camp 22 produces an enormous quantity of coal at almost no cost"
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Read it all at http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=12445&geo=6&size=A
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