Scotty Posted February 4, 2012 Report Posted February 4, 2012 (edited) It takes very little to be sent to one of North Korea's infamous prisons. We recently heard that a number of people who apparently failed to show enough sorrow at the death of Kim Jong Ill were arrested and sent there. In addition, the Korean dictatorship has a policy that says the safest way to ensure no one is upset when a person is sent to one of their prisons is to also send their entire extended family with them, including children. Thus, there's no one left to care too much when their loved one dies. North Korea's Prison Camps Shin Dong-hyuk was born in Kwanliso 14, a “rehabilitation” camp 72 kilometres north of Pyongyang, North Korea. For 23 years he knew only pain, hunger and despair, and like all prisoners was forced to witness the daily executions. Even so, life was not without its hard-won, if shocking pleasures. “One lucky day, I discovered some kernels of corn in a small pile of cow dung,” he said in a report released by Amnesty International in May. “I picked them up and cleaned them with my sleeve before eating.” Torture and exeution daily occurances Edited February 4, 2012 by Scotty Quote It is an inverted moral calculus that tries to persuade the world to demonize one state that tries its civilized best to abide in a difficult time and place, and rides merrily by the examples and practices of dozens of states and leaderships that drop into brutality every day without a twinge of regret or a whisper of condemnation. - Rex Murphy
eyeball Posted February 4, 2012 Report Posted February 4, 2012 Well...in light of China reinforcing the inviolability of the nation state and vetoing intervention in Syria and our dependence on China for our economic sustainability, who are we to argue with the right of a nation state to crack down and get tough on their civilian population? I doubt China would loan us the money we'd need to intervene in NK and even pointing out how dismal things are so close to their own border will only serve to piss them off. They'll probably retaliate by siphoning off even more of our corporations and natural resources now. Quote I said now watch what you say they'll be calling you a radical, a liberal, oh fanatical criminal
bush_cheney2004 Posted February 5, 2012 Report Posted February 5, 2012 ....In addition, the Korean dictatorship has a policy that says the safest way to ensure no one is upset when a person is sent to one of their prisons is to also send their entire extended family with them, including children. Thus, there's no one left to care too much when their loved one dies. Yes, the Canadians and Americans did the same thing for WW2 internment camps. Quote Economics trumps Virtue.
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