North Korea Camps

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So this is my fourth blog post and now I'm not sure if most people think this way but when this topic came up, I immediately thought of North Korea. Maybe it's because of its reputation and all the stereotypes and judgments that are spread all around the world. Now of course, everyone just assumes North Korea is a bad place and everything they do is wrong but is that the truth? 

Well I've decided to research about the North Korean Camps. Basically it is almost like prison or even worse actually. "The kwan-li-so is a prison system which holds political prisoners."* When a someone commits a crime and gets sent to the camps, not only is he/she sent to the camp but also three generations of his/her family. This is how the North Korean government takes control over the people. 

In these camps, people get tortured from extremely severe to just common forms of torture such as beating with sticks or iron rods, slapping, kicking etc. The reason the prisoners get tortured is so that they will tell them confessions. 
The type of torture, I find really unreasonable and really gross is when a guard would order the prisoners to come over. The prisoners had to kneel in a certain position with their hands behind their backs and their mouths open. What would happen is that the guard would spit in their mouths and they had to swallow in order not to get hit. If they gagged, they would get beaten. The guards were taught to treat the prisoners cruelly. They didn't care about human rights.

Also, in the camps there were lots of executions, and they were public executions. Every North Korea has witnessed public execution. Firstly, the prisoners would get triangular stones shoved into their mouths, followed by their faces being covered by rags and then a patch is put over their eyes. Then, they would get tied to a stake in three places: chest, stomach, and knees. After that, the first shots strike in the head, then the chest and finally he stomach. 

In the end, I think that the North Koreans vary between those who hurt and the ones getting hurt. For me, I feel bad for the prisoners because when they first enter the camp, they are told not to ask what crime they committed. So most of the prisoners have absolutely no idea why they're being taken there. To conclude, I think that North Koreans are being tortured unfairly but those who torture shouldn't get blamed for either because they were told and trained to do so. Which is why I think the problem lies within the government and the authorities who let these things happen.    

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 Sources:
1. https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2015/country-chapters/north-korea *
2. http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/03/22/a-terrifying-look-inside-the-nightmarish-world-of-north-koreas-prison-camps/
3. http://www.businessinsider.co.id/north-korea-prison-survivors-on-video-2014-2/#.VwctyvkrLIU