I expanded my final paragraph for this draft. This time I was sort of comparing western countries to North Korea to made a call to action of helping the North Korea to end its prison camps.
North Korea, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, is a country in East Asia and is in the northern part of the Korean Peninsula. North Korea is the most isolated country in the world, and also is one of the world’s most repressive regimes. Since North Korea is isolated and closed, human rights in North Korea are harshly and simply violated, and they are also heavily restricted. As the North Korea government make it very difficult for foreign organizations to enter the country, the extent of human rights abuses in North Korea is not clear. Many kinds of human rights are violated in North Korea, like labor rights, freedom of movement, freedom of expression, right to food and so on. We also discover that there is a place violate all those human rights and is the worst place in the world — North Korean concentration camp. It is the place of horror, fulling of inhuman treatment. As we know this situation in North Korea, we need to pay attention on this issue, and we shouldn’t ignore the lives in North Korea.
The United Nation estimate that there are almost 200,000 political prisoners are detained in the camps. The life in camps are tough and terrible. Prisoners are bearing torture and inhuman treatment every day. Public executions, death by starvation and torture are common in North Korean political prisoner camps. The treatment in camps is inhuman and abhorrent. A North Korean prison camp survivor told of a pregnant woman in a condition of near-starvation who gave birth to a baby -- a new life born against all odds in a grim camp. A security agent heard the baby's cries and beat the mother as a punishment. She begged him to let her keep the baby, but he kept beating her. With shaking hands, the mother was forced to pick up her newborn and put the baby face down in water until the cries stopped and a water bubble formed from the newborn's mouth. This is just one example. There still hundreds of examples exist and maybe thousands of torture or inhuman treatment we still haven’t known. North Korea committed and are committing crimes against humanity. This is not a person committing, this is a country. As the 1951 Convention and Its 1967 Protocol indicates, “States are responsible for protecting the fundamental human rights of their citizens.” A country’s responsibility is to protect its own citizens, however North Korea dose the opposite. It does not protect its own citizens human rights, but restricts their human rights. Moreover, the country become a murder. As the North Korea ignore its own citizens lives, North Korea’s citizens need outside power to help them out of the inhuman treatments. International organizations and people should take this issue on.
The North Korean prison camps have survived twice as long as Stalin’s Soviet gulags and much longer than the Nazi concentration camps. Stalin’s Soviet gulags was a history for us, but North Korean’s prison camps still exist. As we know about this fact, we should not neglect it. When we enjoy our lives, there are a lot of people on the other side of the world bearing brutal torture and starvation. So, we can not sit back and just watch it happens. We need to help them using an appropriate way. On 21 March 2013, the United Nations Human Rights Council published a report of the commission of inquiry on human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, which reported detailed inhuman behavioral in North Korea. I think this is a important step that international organizations are paying attention on human rights in North Korea, and people are trying to solve this issue. Moreover, it is also a warning for North Korea that the world is watching it.
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