NEGATIVE/ROGUES/NORTH KOREA

THE GOVERNMENT OF NORTH KOREA IS EVIL AND SHOULD NOT BE SUPPORTED

NORTH KOREA MAINTAINS HUGE AND EVIL DEATH CAMPS

Catherine Edwards; Insight on the News November 08, 1999, SECTION: WORLD: NORTH KOREA; Pg. 24 HEADLINE: Communist Gulag in All Its Horror // acs-ln-12-28-99

The Center for the Advancement of Human Rights in Seoul, South Korea, estimates that there are more than 10 such camps in North Korea where 400,000 people already have been worked to death, while another 200,000 prisoners remain. Established by late North Korean president Kim Il-sung, 20 percent of those imprisoned in the camps have committed a crime, while 80 percent are family members or have been sentenced to hard labor, torture and brutal conditions for crimes they did not commit.

While these hundreds of thousands languish in government-run concentration camps, North Korea is demanding an apology from the U.S. Army for its alleged killing of 400 South Korean civilians at No Gun Ri during the Korean War when Communist forces were using civilians as human shields for their offensive. The Clinton administration has promised to investigate the events at No Gun Ri but, in its ongoing negotiations with North Korea, critics claim the administration has been appeasing the Stalinist regime.

NORTH KOREAN DEATH CAMPS INCLUDE OVENS TO BURN THE BODIES OF THE DEAD

Catherine Edwards; Insight on the News November 08, 1999, SECTION: WORLD: NORTH KOREA; Pg. 24 HEADLINE: Communist Gulag in All Its Horror // acs-ln-12-28-99

The survivors are determined, however, to tell the world of the conditions in which the North Korean people suffer. Former prison guard [named] An entreated Congress, begging that members not turn their "ears away from the i cries of hundreds of thousands of innocent political prisoners incarcerated within the barbed wires of the concentration camps."

An lives with the memory of hideous experiments performed on prisoners in the camps. And worse. He speaks of another guard who told him of being on patrol at the Preliminary Adjudication Bureau, or Third Bureau of State Security. Inside, he told An, "the place reeked of blood, and the tunnel walls were stained with blood and plastered with patches of human hair. The smoke you saw was the Third Bureau burning bones of camp offenders. It was so terrible I couldn't sleep at night."