hello guys here are 13 brutal fact the north Korean government don't want us to know.

1. No Freedom of Movement

It is illegal for the North Korean people to leave their country without the regime’s permission, and the regime attempts to restrict the people’s movement even inside their own country. If you wish to travel to another part of the country, you are supposed to have a specific purpose and obtain permission from your work unit. If you do not live in Pyongyang, the showcase capital where most resources are concentrated, you will likely be denied access. The regime has also forcibly relocated hundreds of thousands of North Koreans to less favorable parts of the country as a form of punishment and political persecution.

2. No Freedom of Speech

Criticism of the regime or the leadership in North Korea, if reported, is enough to make you and your family ‘disappear’ from society and end up in a political prison camp. It goes without saying that there is no free media inside the country. The only opinion allowed to be voiced inside the country is the regime’s.

3.No Religious Freedom

Organized religion is seen as a potential threat to the regime and therefore nothing apart from token churches built as a facade of religious freedom for foreign visitors are allowed. Thousands of Buddhists and Christians have been purged and persecuted throughout the history of North Korea. People caught practicing or spreading religion in secret are punished extremely harshly, including by public execution or being sent to political prison camps.

4. Chronic Food Shortages

The regime’s refusal to effectively reform its failed agricultural policies, combined with susceptibility to adverse climate conditions (made worse by environmental mismanagement), and an inability to purchase necessary agricultural inputs or food imports mean that the North Korean people have faced food shortages ever since the 1990s. Millions of malnourished children and babies, pregnant women and nursing mothers bear the brunt of the shortages today. This has left an entire generation of North Koreans with stunted growth and a higher susceptibility to health problems.

5. Dismal Public Health

The regime claims that it provides universal health care to its people. In reality, the majority of the public healthcare system collapsed in the 1990s, with only prioritized hospitals in areas such as Pyongyang kept functioning. Elsewhere, health services and medicine are only available to those that can afford it. Ordinary North Koreans are therefore afflicted by easily preventable or curable poverty-related diseases, such as tuberculosis and cataracts.

6. Songbun Political Apartheid System

The North Korean regime has invested an incredible amount of time and resources creating the songbun system, a form of political apartheid that ascribes you with a level of perceived political loyalty based on your family background. Your particular songbun level (there are 51 of them) can then restrict your life opportunities, including where you can live, educational opportunities, Party membership, military service, occupation, and treatment by the criminal justice system. Any perceived political infractions by your family will lead to your songbun being demoted. For more, see this blog post.

7. Political Prison Camps

Five political prison camps hold an estimated 80,000 to 120,000 people. Some of them are the size of cities, and they have existed five times as long as the Nazi concentration camps and twice as long as the Soviet Gulags. Many people imprisoned in these camps were not guilty of any crime, but were related to someone who supposedly committed a political crime. Often they have no idea what that crime was, and even children who are born in the camps are raised as prisoners because their ‘blood is guilty’. Forced labor, brutal beatings, and death are commonplace. The regime denies the existence of these camps, but multiple survivor testimonies have been corroborated by former guards as well as satellite images.

8. Collective Punishment

In North Korea, if your relative is persecuted for “anti-state” or “anti-socialist” crimes, then you and three generations of your family can be punished for it. The aim is to remove from society the whole family unit to prevent any dissent from emerging in the future, and also to deter martyrs who might sacrifice themselves for a political cause but would not want to sacrifice their whole family.

9. Public Executions

The North Korean regime publicly executes citizens who have been accused of a variety of crimes, including petty theft. Whole communities, including children, are brought out to watch these executions, which are designed to instill fear amongst the people of doing anything that could be seen as against the regime’s wishes.

10. Refugee Crisis

The North Korean regime makes it illegal to leave the country without state permission, but every year thousands of North Koreans still risk their lives to escape a combination of a lack of freedoms and economic hardship; in North Korea these are inextricably linked. If caught trying to escape, or if caught in China and sent back, they are at risk of harsh punishments including brutal beatings, forced labor, forced abortions, torture, and internment in a political prison camp. Those suspected of having had contact with South Koreans or Christians while in China receive the most severe punishments.

North Korean refugees’ well-founded fear of persecution if repatriated means that they should be protected under international refugee law. However, the Chinese government prioritizes its political relationship with Pyongyang and does not recognize them as refugees. Instead they label them as “economic migrants” in an attempt to justify the forcible repatriation of thousands of North Korean refugees every year.

Since coming to power, the Kim Jong-un leadership has cooperated with the Chinese authorities to tighten border security. Recent defectors have told us of increased physical border security, increased risk associated with bribing border guards, and heightened punishments for people trying to escape. As a result, the number of refugees managing to arrive in South Korea has decreased by almost half.

11. Refugee Exploitation

There are currently an estimated 30,000-50,000 North Korean refugees in China, living in a precarious and sometimes desperate situation. They fear harsh punishment or even death if they are caught and sent back to North Korea, but many do not have the resources or contacts to get themselves out of China. Their illegal status forces them to work in invisible industries and leaves them vulnerable to exploitation by unscrupulous employers and sex traffickers, as they have no recourse to any authorities. Click here to learn about our work with refugees.

12. Sex Trafficking

Many North Korean women who escape North Korea become victims of sex trafficking. China’s lack of marriageable women, especially in the rural areas of its Northeast provinces, creates a demand for North Korean women who are at risk of being forced to work in brothels or online sex chat-rooms, or are bought and sold as wives. North Korean women have been sold for as little as a few hundred to a few thousands dollars in China.

13. Stateless Children

Children born to North Korean refugee mothers and Chinese fathers can face difficulties obtaining hukou (household registration papers) because of their mother’s illegal status. This can leave the children stateless, recognized by neither the Chinese or North Korean governments, and denied basic rights such as access to education and other state services. There are estimated to be around 10,000 children born to North Korean refugee mothers in China.

source: http://www.libertyinnorthkorea.org/learn-nk-challenges/
video link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rZhocWKIs8

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That country is seriously cursed.

and yet, many zombies are dancing to the "Sai buhari" tune even with the glaring similarities

This is brutal

Yet some Russian and NK trolls will start claiming NK is more developed than US.

I wish they can just relocate to NK.

Na them know. Its the people that make a government, never the other way around.
If the people decide today, this very day, this very second, minute and hour to collectively topple the government there, nobody can stop them. The only chance of this not happening is if the country comprises of only ten citizens of which to my knowledge is not the case.

charix:
Na them know. Its the people that make a government, never the other way around.
If the people decide today, this very day, this very second, minute and hour to collectively topple the government there, nobody can stop them. The only chance of this not happening is if the country comprises of only ten citizens of which to my knowledge is not the case.

korea invest almost all her money and resource to its military. that's why they have the fourth most strongest armed forces in the world. and it's illegal to discuss politics in the public else they kill you in the public. citizens are scared that if they rebel, they might implicate not only themselves, but their family and unborn children.

BraniacX:
and yet, many zombies are dancing to the "Sai buhari" tune even with the glaring similarities

nigerians are blessed with freedom of speech and rights, unlike N. KOREA. they have their own cyber platform in where they can use the net. in that platform, nothing like google, you tube etc. We are blessed with the freedom we in naija have.

Exxit:
korea invest almost all her money and resource to its military. that's why they have the fourth most strongest armed forces in the world. and it's illegal to discuss politics in the public else they kill you in the public. citizens are scared that if they rebel, they might implicate not only themselves, but their family and unborn children.

Humans are well known throughout history for disregarding caution and enforcing a change when they feel disrespected. Either the people're blissful in ignorance or not as oppressed as Western media propagandists report.

I'm not suprize,maybe these are their ways the USA criticize that made them(korea) rather dine with Russia.

Exxit:
hello guys here are 13 brutal fact the north Korean government don't want us to know.

1. No Freedom of Movement

It is illegal for the North Korean people to leave their country without the regime’s permission, and the regime attempts to restrict the people’s movement even inside their own country. If you wish to travel to another part of the country, you are supposed to have a specific purpose and obtain permission from your work unit. If you do not live in Pyongyang, the showcase capital where most resources are concentrated, you will likely be denied access. The regime has also forcibly relocated hundreds of thousands of North Koreans to less favorable parts of the country as a form of punishment and political persecution.

2. No Freedom of Speech

Criticism of the regime or the leadership in North Korea, if reported, is enough to make you and your family ‘disappear’ from society and end up in a political prison camp. It goes without saying that there is no free media inside the country. The only opinion allowed to be voiced inside the country is the regime’s.

3.No Religious Freedom

Organized religion is seen as a potential threat to the regime and therefore nothing apart from token churches built as a facade of religious freedom for foreign visitors are allowed. Thousands of Buddhists and Christians have been purged and persecuted throughout the history of North Korea. People caught practicing or spreading religion in secret are punished extremely harshly, including by public execution or being sent to political prison camps.

4. Chronic Food Shortages

The regime’s refusal to effectively reform its failed agricultural policies, combined with susceptibility to adverse climate conditions (made worse by environmental mismanagement), and an inability to purchase necessary agricultural inputs or food imports mean that the North Korean people have faced food shortages ever since the 1990s. Millions of malnourished children and babies, pregnant women and nursing mothers bear the brunt of the shortages today. This has left an entire generation of North Koreans with stunted growth and a higher susceptibility to health problems.

5. Dismal Public Health

The regime claims that it provides universal health care to its people. In reality, the majority of the public healthcare system collapsed in the 1990s, with only prioritized hospitals in areas such as Pyongyang kept functioning. Elsewhere, health services and medicine are only available to those that can afford it. Ordinary North Koreans are therefore afflicted by easily preventable or curable poverty-related diseases, such as tuberculosis and cataracts.

6. Songbun Political Apartheid System

The North Korean regime has invested an incredible amount of time and resources creating the songbun system, a form of political apartheid that ascribes you with a level of perceived political loyalty based on your family background. Your particular songbun level (there are 51 of them) can then restrict your life opportunities, including where you can live, educational opportunities, Party membership, military service, occupation, and treatment by the criminal justice system. Any perceived political infractions by your family will lead to your songbun being demoted. For more, see this blog post.

7. Political Prison Camps

Five political prison camps hold an estimated 80,000 to 120,000 people. Some of them are the size of cities, and they have existed five times as long as the Nazi concentration camps and twice as long as the Soviet Gulags. Many people imprisoned in these camps were not guilty of any crime, but were related to someone who supposedly committed a political crime. Often they have no idea what that crime was, and even children who are born in the camps are raised as prisoners because their ‘blood is guilty’. Forced labor, brutal beatings, and death are commonplace. The regime denies the existence of these camps, but multiple survivor testimonies have been corroborated by former guards as well as satellite images.

8. Collective Punishment

In North Korea, if your relative is persecuted for “anti-state” or “anti-socialist” crimes, then you and three generations of your family can be punished for it. The aim is to remove from society the whole family unit to prevent any dissent from emerging in the future, and also to deter martyrs who might sacrifice themselves for a political cause but would not want to sacrifice their whole family.

9. Public Executions

The North Korean regime publicly executes citizens who have been accused of a variety of crimes, including petty theft. Whole communities, including children, are brought out to watch these executions, which are designed to instill fear amongst the people of doing anything that could be seen as against the regime’s wishes.

10. Refugee Crisis

The North Korean regime makes it illegal to leave the country without state permission, but every year thousands of North Koreans still risk their lives to escape a combination of a lack of freedoms and economic hardship; in North Korea these are inextricably linked. If caught trying to escape, or if caught in China and sent back, they are at risk of harsh punishments including brutal beatings, forced labor, forced abortions, torture, and internment in a political prison camp. Those suspected of having had contact with South Koreans or Christians while in China receive the most severe punishments.

North Korean refugees’ well-founded fear of persecution if repatriated means that they should be protected under international refugee law. However, the Chinese government prioritizes its political relationship with Pyongyang and does not recognize them as refugees. Instead they label them as “economic migrants” in an attempt to justify the forcible repatriation of thousands of North Korean refugees every year.

Since coming to power, the Kim Jong-un leadership has cooperated with the Chinese authorities to tighten border security. Recent defectors have told us of increased physical border security, increased risk associated with bribing border guards, and heightened punishments for people trying to escape. As a result, the number of refugees managing to arrive in South Korea has decreased by almost half.

11. Refugee Exploitation

There are currently an estimated 30,000-50,000 North Korean refugees in China, living in a precarious and sometimes desperate situation. They fear harsh punishment or even death if they are caught and sent back to North Korea, but many do not have the resources or contacts to get themselves out of China. Their illegal status forces them to work in invisible industries and leaves them vulnerable to exploitation by unscrupulous employers and sex traffickers, as they have no recourse to any authorities. Click here to learn about our work with refugees.

12. Sex Trafficking

Many North Korean women who escape North Korea become victims of sex trafficking. China’s lack of marriageable women, especially in the rural areas of its Northeast provinces, creates a demand for North Korean women who are at risk of being forced to work in brothels or online sex chat-rooms, or are bought and sold as wives. North Korean women have been sold for as little as a few hundred to a few thousands dollars in China.

13. Stateless Children

Children born to North Korean refugee mothers and Chinese fathers can face difficulties obtaining hukou (household registration papers) because of their mother’s illegal status. This can leave the children stateless, recognized by neither the Chinese or North Korean governments, and denied basic rights such as access to education and other state services. There are estimated to be around 10,000 children born to North Korean refugee mothers in China.

source: http://www.libertyinnorthkorea.org/learn-nk-challenges/
video link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rZhocWKIs8

Another western propaganda

@ op

What makes you think democracy is the best system of government


Every country must not practice democracy, people tend to adopt the system of government that best suit them....this is what the westerners failed to understand

That democracy is working for them doesn't mean it will work for others

Look at iraqi if you want to be a terrorist go to iraqi, it wasnt like this when sada musein was incharged. Ye he is a bad guy agree
But he was executing terrorists on daily bases he understand his own people

Libya is a failed state now....a country that once had the best economy in Africa is now the head quarter of Isis

It is not everyone that choose to be slave like Africa

I think Nork Korea is doing well with their own unique system of government

They re economically and technologically more advanced than so many western countries and your country nigeria

Exxit:
nigerians are blessed with freedom of speech and rights, unlike N. KOREA. they have their own cyber platform in where they can use the net. in that platform, nothing like google, you tube etc. We are blessed with the freedom we in naija have.

yeah!
right!
freedom until another social media regulation bill comes up.

the freedom you have is courtesy of the previous government, this government is trying hard to corrode that freedom

charix:
Na them know. Its the people that make a government, never the other way around.
If the people decide today, this very day, this very second, minute and hour to collectively topple the government there, nobody can stop them. The only chance of this not happening is if the country comprises of only ten citizens of which to my knowledge is not the case.

keep dreaming dreamer, reality is always harsh on people like you.

BraniacX:


keep dreaming dreamer, reality is always harsh on people like you.

The Arab Spring, the war in Ukraine, the Chinese umbrella movement and the 2012 subsidy protests were started by human beings.

charix:

The Arab Spring, the war in Ukraine, the Chinese umbrella movement and the 2012 subsidy protests were started by human beings.

and none in north Korea ...............

if you want to geld a beast, you must know and understand the nature of that beast, north Koreans know the nature of their beast (the Kim un's) and prefer protecting the lives of their families by conforming and you're here philosophizing, go and help them start an uprising na, only remember CNN, BCC and al jazeera won't be there to cover Yoi and you'll die unheard of GOD forbid.

charix:

Humans are well known throughout history for disregarding caution and enforcing a change when they feel disrespected. Either the people're blissful in ignorance or not as oppressed as Western media propagandists report.

BraniacX:


and none in north Korea ...............

if you want to geld a beast, you must know and understand the nature of that beast, north Koreans know the nature of their beast (the Kim un's) and prefer protecting the lives of their families by conforming and you're here philosophizing, go and help them start an uprising na, only remember CNN, BCC and al jazeera won't be there to cover Yoi and you'll die unheard of GOD forbid.

Your point is? You're supporting my point of view. I don't see the problem here.

charix:

Your point is? You're supporting my point of view. I don't see the problem here.

and how does what I wrote translate into blissful ignorance?

BraniacX:


and how does what I wrote translate into blissful ignorance?

Keep the people blissfully ignorant of the western world and they'd see no need for democracy or ousting a family which's ruled for three generations. If you want indepth view of this watch a few documentaries of the country on YouTube. There's an abundance of unbiased visits to the country by freelance journalists so it's obvious western media has no hand in twisting 'facts' to fit their view.

charix:

Keep the people blissfully ignorant of the western world and they'd see no need for democracy or ousting a family which's ruled for three generations. If you want indepth view of this watch a few documentaries of the country on YouTube. There's an abundance of unbiased visits to the country by freelance journalists so it's obvious western media has no hand in twisting 'facts' to fit their view.

and the ones struggling to make it past the border into China, Russia and from there elsewhere are they also blissfully ignorant? your semantics is defeating your argument, your term "blissfully ignorant" is a misnomer, ignorant to an extent I can agree with but believe this, there's no bliss in it

and do you acknowledge the fact that every single "freelance" journalist is sherperded by an official government minder who decides who and what they see, where they go to, who they talk to e.t.c

BraniacX:


and the ones struggling to make it past the border into China, Russia and from there elsewhere are they also blissfully ignorant? your semantics is defeating your argument, your term "blissfully ignorant" is a misnomer, ignorant to an extent I can agree with but believe this, there's no bliss in it

and do you acknowledge the fact that every single "freelance" journalist is sherperded by an official government minder who decides who and what they see, where they go to, who they talk to e.t.c

Something told me you'd respond even after directing you to watch documentaries on the subject. My opinion was dropped yesterday, I lost interest on this issue straight after one or two replies.
Follow my advice and watch documentaries on YouTube because I'm not interested in debating my views. Like I always say 'drop your opinion and keep it moving', I've done mine. I'm out.