The shocking history of the Nazis concentration camps is widely known, and has been thoroughly documented in the media. However, the deplorable conditions of the people in North Korea are significantly lesser known. Military dictatorship and worship of the state despite the masses starving to death has been seen time and time again. Young and old, looking for food anywhere they can, even eating from animal dung. Shin In Geun, a survivor of one of North Korea’s harshest prison labor camps, Camp 14, tells a sobering story of police state, Orwellian prison camp life, marred by excessive work and malnutrition, beatings, torture, executions, snitching and spying on other inmates in an attempt to survive. Experts taken from “The Guardian”
Shin’s camp, number 14, is a complete control district. Established around 1959 near Kaechon County in South Pyongan Province, it holds an estimated 15,000 prisoners. About 30 miles long and 15 miles wide, it has farms, mines and factories threaded through steep mountain valleys.
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The guards taught the children they were prisoners because of the “sins” of their parents but that they could “wash away” their inherent sinfulness by working hard, obeying the guards and informing on their parents.
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One day in June 1989, Shin’s teacher, a guard who wore a uniform and a pistol on his hip, sprang a surprise search of the six-year-olds. When it was over, he held five kernels of corn. They all belonged a slight girl Shint remembers as exceptionally pretty. The teacher ordered the girl to the front of the class and told her to kneel. Swinging his wooden pointer, he struck her on the head again and again. As Shin and his classmates watched in silence, lumps puffed up on her skull, blood leaked from her nose and she toppled over on to the concrete floor. Shin and his classmates carried her home. Later that night, she died.
On a hillside near Shin’s school, a slogan was posted: “All according to the rules and regulations.” The boy memorised the camp’s 10 rules, and can still recite them by heart. Subsection three of Camp 14’s third rule said, “Anyone who steals or conceals any foodstuffs will be shot immediately.” Shin thought the girl’s punishment was just. The same man continued to teach Shin. In breaks, he allowed students to play rock, paper, scissors. On Saturdays, he would sometimes grant children an hour to pick lice out of each other’s hair. Shin never learned his name.
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“I need to say something to you,” Shin told the guard, “but before I do, I want something in return.” Shin demanded more food and to be named grade leader at school, a position that would allow him to work less and not be beaten as often. The guard agreed, then told Shin and Hong to go back to get some sleep
…n 1998 Shin was working alongside thousands of prisoners building a hydroelectric dam on the Taedong river. Labour continued round the clock, with most of the digging and construction done by workers using shovels, buckets and bare hands. Shin had seen prisoners die in the camp before – of hunger, illness, beatings and at executions – but not as a routine part of work. The greatest loss of life occurred when a flash flood rolled down the Taedong in July 1998, sweeping away hundreds of dam workers and students. Shin was quickly put to work burying their bodies.
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Shin had never sung a song. His only exposure to music had been on the farm, when trucks with loudspeakers played military marching music. To Shin, singing seemed unnatural and insanely risky.
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Before Shin crawled through that electric fence and ran off into the snow, no one born in a North Korean political prison camp had ever escaped. As far as can be determined, Shin is still the only one to do so.
As we see the UN led NATO invade and kill political leaders in countries such as Iraq and Libya during the past 15-20 years, and push to invade Africa, Syria and Iran over much minor issues in comparison to the ongoing human rights violations of the North Korean government, western nations have said and done next to nothing to help the North Korean’s. In fact many high level members of the United States Government have visited North Korea on multiple occasions, and have remained silent on the very real issue of concentration camps in the country. Of course, the west’s close relationship with China while neglecting similar issues of human rights abuses is handled in much the same manner. in an attempt to sweep it under the rug. Of course, those who study history are no familiar with the true nature of European and Western governments and their relationships with fascist and communist dictators during WWI and WWII. From the British Royal Family visiting Nazi Germany and marrying into elite German families, to Wall Street and the Bush family funding the Nazi war machine and their corporate interests in Germany, and even the Vatican signing a contract or concordant with the Nazis, it is not irrational to suspect we are seeing a similar blind eye been cast towards human rights abuses in North Korea and China. After-all, the modern propaganda machine of the globalists love to pronounce “Hitler bad, America/England/UN/NATO good”. The untold suffering of the Chinese and North Korean people is surely one that we have only heard the beginning of.
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