North Korea: Hell on Earth, still in the early 21st century !!!

Despite some confusing position taken by the authors, (mainly in the foreword of the book), what is more, historically and dialectically questionable and very strong contradictions fully with all the terrifying and poignant testimonies of exiled survivors North Korea; this book perfectly complements the stunning testimony Kang Chol-Hwan "The Aquariums of Pyongyang" and those contained in the book by Sophie Delaunay and Marine Buissonnière "I regret being born there: North Korea: the hell and exile. "

This despicable totalitarian Communist system organized Terror was established by Kim Il-Sung in 1948, helped neither more nor less, than the great mass that criminals are: Stalin and Mao Zedong.

All these exiles are torn deeply to have to leave: their families, their friends and even their homeland, North Korea.

Through all this evidence, many tragic phenomena are addressed in the context of the immense distress that North Korean People who live from day to day for over 60 years, completely enclosed in his own country by the dynastic tyranny of First, Kim Il-Sung and since his death in 1994 by his son Kim Jong-Il.

Here are some significant examples tragically, this despotism generalized to the entire North Korean society:

1 / Concerning the Cult of the "Great Leader" Kim Il-Sung:
From a young age, the North Koreans are indoctrinated children by propaganda and lies in the Communist Youth Komsomol Soviet way.
Indeed, indoctrination in North Korea begins CPR. Moreover, textbooks are only published by the publishing house Hagu Sobang, under the strict control of the Communist regime Capital: Pyongyang. In primary school, pupils study "Children of Marshall Kim Il-Sung," college students, they are working on "activities of the Great Leader, Kim Il-Sung", and students from sixteen practice daily self-criticism sessions.
Moreover, slogans glorifying the Pyongyang regime and the "Grand Marshall" must necessarily be learned until it becomes automatic and rehearsed, too, every day.

The difficult journey to get to objectively analyze the situation, to escape the "straitjacket" imposed by the daily psychological Ideological indoctrination, can take years or even all life. In this sense, the response of the refugee, Migyeong, authors of the book is fairly representative of this long journey leading to this realization. Speaking of Kim Il-Sung, here is what it says on page 285:

"In the North, Kim Il-Sung was my" father ", the best men in the world. I even had the privilege of being presented to him when I was five. I had a picture of me with a gift . I was very grateful. In China I realized that it was all an illusion. In South Korea, I admitted that it was monstrous. He has not done his job as president. "

In this hermetically sealed country, the propaganda of the North Korean Communist Party claims that the "heaven on earth" IS ..., North Korea and the rest of the world and especially capitalism are the worst horrors: all people are beggars, drug addicts, destitute, etc ..

Obviously the reality is that it is forbidden in North Korea to express any personal opinion, other than that imposed by the official ideology of the Party-Communist Totalitarian State-Unique, without the risk of being once: denounced won, interrogated, tortured, deported to concentration camps, work and die of hunger, disease, cold, exhaustion or being summarily convicted and executed publicly.

Another refugee, Junho judiciously reflects the Politico-Ideological context in the country, pages 277 and 278:

"Junho speaks again." In North Korea, we would never have imagined that it was because of the political system that we lacked food. It was horrible! Kim Jong-Il is really a bastard: I really seen too many people die of hunger because of him. Our education has taught us that he was a god and the slightest doubt about it we feel guilty. But how could we put anything into question since we knew kidney else? Everywhere there were portraits of Kim Il-Sung and Kim Jong Il. But even before their image, they dared not do anything, say anything! In fact, I think they were very keen to get to make us believe that we live in paradise and educate a whole nation to get used to the lack of food. "

2 / Of the 300,000 exiled North Koreans tragically for many North Korean fugitives, in addition to having to suffer the tragedy of family separation, the great dangers of the leak in the cold and the risk of being arrested every moment of the journey by the Korean and Chinese Police; they often endure in addition, forced marriages or exploitation of Chinese prostitution and violence to survive in China, waiting to return to South Korea.
Here is the terrible description by a survivor, Jeong-Hui exile in China, page 21:

"If I am controlled by the Chinese police, they embark me immediately into a collection center for the North Koreans near here, before we return to our country ... And there is the camp or prison. In the re-education camp, you die quickly, it gives you just a little water and nothing to eat. We sent you there to die. In prison, you also die but slower. So finding Work officially here in China? Impossible. "

In China, so it is mainly Tumen Prison, "kind of anti-chamber of deportation," which is used to group the North Korean exiles, before returning in groups to North Korea, with the inevitable destinations : prison and / or labor camp.

3 / In terms: concentration camps, education camps or labor camps, what camps are veritable slave very often leading to certain death. Another survivor, Hyonam we made the terrifying description, pages 119, 120 and 121:

"Hyonam said impassively. Not once since the beginning of our interview he has appeared troubled, moved. Like all the others he has seen so that its sensitivity is armored. Corpses? Summary executions? torture? Who has not seen in North Korea? Nothing but daily. A horribly banal everyday for a whole generation.
Hyonam we tend drawings of camp he made thereafter. The clumsy charcoal sketches show prisoners during the morning assembly, a soldier who beats a prisoner butts, a cell tumble sleep a dozen men, and finally a public execution.
Hyonam takes a sheet of paper and a few strokes of the pen draws camp plan. "Each camp has specialized. The camp Jeongeori therefore an adjoining ore mine. This is by far the most dreaded division. The mine is far from everything, isolated in the mountains. We are going there to die. ( ...)
"The two most popular divisions were food division and that of livestock. There was always a way to steal scraps of food. I saw prisoners who were searching in the excreta of pigs to look for undigested grains and eat them. The last section, finally, it was the infirmary, health division. (...)
"Upon arrival at the camp, a step was assigned to prisoners based on their gender, age and crime. From this level depended on the amount of food distributed. We received for any food of" gadabap "a at all three meals, and a radish soup bowl. From the dirty boiled water which floated bits of rancid fermented rave. The "gadabap"? These are rolls made from corn flour that delivers according the grade of the detainee. The favored the first level, they are entitled to ten centimeters per meal. The sick and the old, to the lowest level, received only five centimeters. I belong to the third level, I So getting seven centimeters, just over the bedridden ...
I went out on 6 July 2000. On the occasion of exceptional forgiveness ceremony. That day a thousand detainees were released. When they said my registration number, Ra-136, I stopped breathing. "
Hyonam was silent. "Of the twenty-four people in my section in the camp, we are only two to survive." He shows us his wrist he pretended to pinch between thumb and forefinger. "On leaving the camp I weighed only fourteen kilos, my fingers touched through the skin." "

This appalling description of the camps reminds feature for feature, extreme survival conditions, among others, in Soviet camps of the Gulag and Lao Gai Chinese.

4 / Between 1994 and 1999, North Korea has been under the responsibility of Kim Jong-Il, a massive famine that killed between 2 and 3 MILLION dead!
Indeed, the food supply problems quickened in the early 90s to reach the NIL in 1994. Eun-Seok, aged fifteen years at that time, tells this terrible Famine, page 228:

"We started to eat what we found. The tree bark, acorns, herbs, medicinal plants, alcohol production residues or soybean paste waste," dubujjigi "... We have learned to distinguish poisonous plants and edible. I constantly hungry. I wandered the markets and I listened to the conversations. "

During this immeasurable Famine, 217 camps for "displaced" were created. Every year between 1997 and 1999, about 2 MILLION "beggars and vagabonds", mostly children and adolescents passed there before being transferred to prison facilities.
In these camps named "927", countless people died: hunger, cold, paratyphoid, scabies ...

Tragically, as in all the monumental mass of Famines "World" Communist Totalitarian, evidence of cannibalism are numerous and suicide cases ...

This is an essential book: thanks to its many precise testimonies of survivors and perpetrators of careful investigation (despite the limited information available from this "Hermit Kingdom"), on the North Korean People hermetically sealed for more than 60 years in the hell of a Inhumaine Terror.

NEVER Let us not forget that all these horrors happen again ..., TODAY, in North Korea!

Confer also other as exciting books on the same theme of:
- Pierre Rigoulot North Korea, rogue state;
- Kang Chol-Hwan The Aquariums of Pyongyang;
- Eunsun Kim and Sebastien Falletti "North Korea: 9 years to escape hell";
- Barbara Demick "Ordinary Lives in North Korea";
- Sophie Delaunay and Marine Buissonnière I regret being born there: North Korea: Hell and exile.