North Korean Human Rights Violation Essay

I. Introduction to North Korean Human Rights Violations

Little is known about North Korea except for news stories concerning international terrorism, nuclear arms threats, and prison camps. From space, North Korea is shrouded in darkness like the history that surrounds this country. This is due to the nation's strict closed-country policy: not many outsiders have visited there and not many North Koreans have traveled to the outside world. While little action can be taken to help the North Korean people, action taken by the United Nations is crucial. Recently, United Nations human rights investigators issued a horrific report documenting massive human rights violations in North Korea. The United Nations feels these crimes of humanity should be brought to the International Criminal Court. UN members work to "promote and encourage respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language, or religion” (Youth For Human Rights). North Korea unlike any other country in the world cannot be reported on fully because of regulations on people entering its boundaries.

The limited information known about North Korea is from under cover sources and people. If captured these people will be sent to horrific labor camps already filled with hundreds of thousands of North Koreans. The atrocities of human torture and what people living there endure really made me want to research North Korea. Has anyone infiltrated the country to help these issues? How does a country get like this in the first place? What is their culture like? How has North Korea been exposed? What was in this report issued by the UN?

II. The Search Plan and the Search.

I started my search with the historical background of North Kore...

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...ured and their experiences. It is important to me that I present not only experiences like that of journalist Laura Ling but also what the United States is doing to reduce tensions. I think the background information is important but I probably will not need to go further than I already have with it. I think it is important though to look into why exactly the United States is so hated by North Korea except for the fact that we are a capitalist country. The major focus will be to present what it is like in a torture camp based off from sketches of people who have survived the horrific camp like Kim Kwang-il. His account of what happened to him mirrors that of Holocaust survivors and it is happening today. I always wondered why more wasn’t done to help people during the Holocaust or events like the Rwanda genocide and why there is not more we can do about North Korea.