North Korean former detainee tells his story

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Published on Apr 13, 2012 by

The world's eyes are on North Korea after its failed rocket launch, but some also want to keep the focus on Pyongyang's human rights record. Political detainees there are kept in secret camps.

Al Jazeera's Emma Hayward reports from Paris, France.

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  • I quite find it funny on how the general public didn't take an interest in this. But yet they like Hunger Games...

  • An invasion of China? that's silly.

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  • Funny enough when I was reading the books I thought of North Korea....

  • I think Benjamis Franklin said "Those who would sacrifice liberty for security deserve neither. I agree cowardice is what many of us do. Its sick when we argue over futile subject and ignore the core problems.

  • I agree, mob rule is also not good, and we the peopel have alowed this behavior due to, in my opinion cowardous. For too may are no longer patriots and are perfectly willing to give up liberties for a little temporary security, The Constitution and the bill of right, if followed prevents either form happeneing. How ever the neocon want to trash what they do nto like, and the executive branch has already undermined what i felt was "in the way" of doing what they wanted.

  • Sanction China?

    Do you know how much power and influence China has now on the global economy? Any nation that tries to commit economic warfare against China will see severe repercussions. Japan a few years ago was in a dispute over islands in the east China sea and arrested the captain of a fishing boat. All it took was a halt in exports of rare earth to Japan and they changed their M.O and let the fishing captain go.

  • And if the U.S. does intervene in any tangible manner, the international community will regard any action thereof as a malevolent incursion serving the purpose of modern colonialism. Conversely, however, the sanctions and embargoes that the U.S. maintains to cripple these nations economically aren't highlighted or treated with nearly the same scrutiny. Sad, isn't it?

  • when i see this propaganda i get some lols... i mean not because the story could be totally fake and such, because even AJ uses this sort of shit in the time when NK is raising a middle finger to the western powers who have the country isolated in a political and economical way .... yet i don't see many countries testing rocket/misile launches around with the so called capitalist models starving people all around the globe .... NK can not be that bad after all, i think.

  • i went to cuba for a about 4 weeks i lived in a normal house and went to the supermarkets with bare shelves people have to grow there own food if they didnt have the sun they would have staved due to the embargo and the truth is the US dosent care if they do starve.

  • actually society ALLOWS it to. If you let anyone do anything they want eventually it leads to abuse. Since DEMOCRACY checks how long any ONE man/woman can lead, it usually doesn't degenerate into insane facism. Only problem with that is mob rule can lead to very evil shit as well.

  • Just hold China responsible. Well,China itself is not a saint either. It is the big boss of torture, beating the prisoner, illegal capturing and all sorts of evil things of the region.

    Just expell China from The UN and WTO and impose the tightest sunction on it, if you really want to help those innocent poor north Korean fellows.

  • Beatings Prison Starving, sounds like NK is like the Nazis except they haven't invaded any neighbors yet.

  • Not if China allows reunification on the condition that troops cannot be stationed beyond the current DMZ, i.e. the North must be completely demilitarized.

  • jesus......

  • they all need to move to US

  • are you high?

  • i want to immigrate to north korea

  • And just how does this differ from what the US government does in Cuba?

  • yep, and this is what a unchecked executive branch leads to. 

  • If Korea is united under South Korea, US won't have to do naval invasion of China because they can directly march their army through the Korean peninsula and attack Beijing. I doubt Vietnam and Russia will give US military access or even stay neutral.

  • People actually do the insane act of having babies at those places? Like willfully popping out a baby when you're hovering above a land mine.

  • buffer zone?, like they can't get into China some other way?

  • It is too bad that North Korea will continue doing this undisturbed because the US increasing threats against China had only push for stronger Chinese support to maintain North Korea as buffer zone.

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