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Jalisa Crosby

Humans rights watch. “North Korea Events of 2016.” New York, NY 10118-3299 USA Publisher, September 13, 2016. https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2017/country-chapters/north-korea  Jan 23, 2018.

Human rights watch. “North Korea’s Brutality Laid Bare.” Daniel Lee, Senior Associate, Asia Division, December 11, 2017 2:00PM EST https://www.hrw.org/news/2017/12/11/north-koreas-brutality-laid-bare. Jan 23, 2018

Ken Bredemeier. “US Sanctions N. Korean Officials for Human Rights Abuses.” Editor’s pick,  October 26, 2017. https://www.voanews.com/a/united-states-sanctions-north-korea-human-rights-abuses/4087655.html. Jan 23, 2018.

CBA/AP. “Tensions over North Korea worsen rights violations, U.N. says.” CBA NEWS, December 11, 2017. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tensions-over-north-korea-worsen-rights-violations-u-n-says/. Jan 23, 2018

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There are many injustices and economic struggles against North Koreans in their country and sadly to say, the more the problems proceed, the more people will die. Like today, many citizens are forced to face difficult challenges of having their Human Rights Freedom limited off of many things which makes it a struggle for individuals. “A 2014 United Nations Commission of Inquiry (COI) report on human rights in North Korea stated that systematic, widespread, and gross human rights violations committed by the government included murder, enslavement, torture, imprisonment, rape, forced abortion, and other sexual violence, and constituted crimes against humanity. The Communist Government pretty much owns most of the whole population’s property, including by controlling other people’s lives. The Government officials are highly demanding and selfish by forcing every individual in the country to seek the Government's permissions for almost everything. That also includes for stopping North Koreans from crossing into China without permission, which wouldn’t make so much a difference because the rule was already passed by the their leader, Kim Jong Un, that every individual is prohibited of crossing the border at all or having anything to do with China.

A peaceful freedom rights movement is also prohibited for the people to join together in a formation of proclaiming the nation to be at peace. Such things, the people would be punished for or depending on the way they protest without stopping, they will be sentenced to death. Nauert also said "the regime's efforts to restrict North Koreans' freedom of movement, right to leave their country, and access to information reach far beyond its sovereign boundaries. The government deploys security officials on assignments overseas to monitor the activities of North Koreans abroad and to forcibly repatriate individuals seeking asylum abroad. So by this, by no power, whats so ever but whatever the people can make up, there is no bigger power than other than the Communist Government. Their word of speech is too weak to reach, not even to hearts of those cruel people, to stop the injustices and violations of the people’s rights.

Brutality as well is another factor that lays off the people’s Human rights as well in North Korea. “Ji Hyeona, a North Korean woman detained by Chinese authorities and forcibly repatriated after each of her first three attempts to flee North Korea, described her harrowing experiences at the United Nations today. In her deeply moving testimony, she explained how North Korean officials beat her and fed her only rotten food before she finally managed to reach South Korea on her fourth attempt. The author also goes on about how this problems worsens on when people do attempt to escape, they are to be sold into slavery just as the one mentioned, Ji Hyeona. It shows a great purpose how the Government cares less whether if you’re a male, female, child, elder or whomever, they will do anything just to punish someone due to their actions. It’s incredibly unfair and so depressing, it shows really on their end how they will not tolerate anything, no matter if you went on your knees and plead to them, there will be no hope.

The lack of security also plays a major factor in North Korea where many people According to the U.N rights chief, he told the Security Council that the international security crisis sparked by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's military actions "is inseparable from concerns about the human rights situation of the ordinary people in the country." Due to the rough conditions in which the people live, they are living up to conditions in which the government--including the military takes over the lives people and lacking the source of security, leaving people behind. The widespread of the violations continues to spread over the North Korean peninsula. People are left alone, including young children to defend for themselves when their parents are taken away. Even President Donald Trump has vowed to stop the North Koreans from reaching such capability, increasing the possibility of conflict. No matter how the citizens pleads, including the youth for peace and security, the Government would still deny its request no matter how sorry and what shape they are in. Even people who said these things were taken to either prison or even executed.

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In source 1 in presents the topic of the horrible conditions that takes place in North Korea which it is reported on human rights in North Korea stated that systematic, widespread, and gross human rights violations committed by the government included murder, enslavement, torture, imprisonment, rape, forced abortion, and other sexual violence, and constituted crimes against humanity. It also reveals how many people are much limited on their freedoms such as  international telephone and internet use. On one report quotes: “In 2016, Kim Jong-Un’s government increased efforts to stop North Koreans from crossing into China without permission. Some tactics included building barbed-wire fences on the northern border; persecuting those caught in North Korea using Chinese cellphones to communicate with people in China or South Korea; and increasing efforts to block Chinese cell phone services near the border.” Many North Koreans face punishment if they are found with mobile media, such as Chinese mobile phones, SD cards or USBs containing unauthorized videos of foreign news, films, or TV dramas. Honestly, this report can go on and on about how touchy and serious this topic is by the pain and struggle many of them have to face which connects to the audience emotions to feel sympathetic for these people. Sadly, as we think, we won’t have any hope to help them due to how strict their country is and even some who traveled to North Korea were killed.

Furthermore in source 2 it goes on about how a woman of the name  Ji Hyeona, a North Korean woman detained by Chinese authorities and forcibly repatriated after each of her first three attempts to flee North Korea, described her harrowing experiences at the United Nations. As she described how she was forced by the bowibu (North Korea's Ministry of State Security) to abort her first child after being captured a third time, and how her little sister was trafficked and sold into slavery after a failed escape attempt, her voice broke and faltered. How heartbreaking this is for this poor woman to suffer by the hands and control over such a cruel and wicked government, not having the freedom to have or keep her own children. One thing by reading the article however, brought out a point that seems particularly biased: “China also deserves greater scrutiny for its role in supporting the Kim regime and facilitating North Korea’s egregious abuses. China has recently intensified its crackdown on North Korean refugees fleeing through China to find protection in a third country.” This statement made here is not logical at all, and shows the lack of reliability for other to trust this criteria because of one's opinion which this is not a fact.

My third source of the articles brings out that how horrible the conditions, a bit similar to source 1 by how unfair people are treated and how their freedom is limited due to the government being highly against humanity and freedom to the people. But being included with this many North Koreans are imprisoned into camps where food, water, and clothing are rarely provided--which causes people to develop diseases and have to fend for themselves. Men who are forced to work in the government often die from exhaustion and being overworked out and women too face rape. One bias statement I’ve found here is that: “North Korean leader Kim Jong Un oversees a system of political prisons that are worse than the Nazi concentration camps of World War II, according to an Auschwitz survivor serving on a panel probing human rights violations carried out by the isolated regime,” which could be true however, but doesn’t provide the right evidence because as for a fact, WW2 was one of the biggest genocides of all time due to many people were killed mostly the Jews in the holocaust. But either way, the living conditions and society in North Korea are ridiculous and horrible, many people die each day because of them being in the evil hands of the Government and their ruler--Kim Jong Un.

As the conditions and society worsens in that country, many people are frightened at the situation of the North Korean government launching a nuclear missile into the U.S, which frightens many of the citizens. Not only in that way, it even makes it even difficult for them because of the military and government enforcing more harsh prison camps on the people.

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https://www.voanews.com/a/united-states-sanctions-north-korea-human-rights-abuses/4087655.html

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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tensions-over-north-korea-worsen-rights-violations-u-n-says/

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https://www.hrw.org/news/2017/12/11/north-koreas-brutality-laid-bare

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https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2017/country-chapters/north-korea