Posted on 10/25/2010 1:28:49 AM PDT by fabrizio
The population suffers from malnutrition and chronic economic problems, most affected children, women and the elderly. Between August 2009 and August 2010 a "worsening of the crisis” registered. South Korean Minister: in the North there are 150- 200 thousand political prisoners in six detention camps.
Seoul (AsiaNews / Agencies) - North Korea's population suffers from malnutrition and chronic economic problems; the most affected are children, pregnant women and the elderly, who do not have enough food to survive. This is what emerges from the latest UN report, released by the Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, and dedicated to the human rights situation under North Korea's communist regime. Meanwhile, an official in Seoul confirmed that in the North there are about "150-200 thousand political prisoners, locked up in six work camps around the country”.
The UN document on human rights in North Korea described a worsening humanitarian crisis in the country, “in the period between August 2009 and August 2010”. Information filtering from the Pyongyang regime shows a "suffering of the Korean people," especially "food insecurity and high rates of malnutrition". The urgent cases in need of food include at least 3.5 million children and women (out a population of 24 million people) a situation that is further aggravated by the recurrence of floods and droughts.
The health system is on the verge of bankruptcy, in many areas there is no clean water and the education system is in crisis. North Korea needs at least 3.54 million tones of cereals for human consumption and 1.2 million for seed and industrial use. On the political level there are "extensive restrictions in the field of civil and political rights," including "freedom of thought, conscience, religion, opinion and expression".
Meanwhile, Hyun In-taek, South Korean Minister for Unification, reports that between 150 and 200 thousand North Koreans are deprived of their liberty because they were considered "political prisoners". Officials in Seoul did not reveal the source, adding that the figure is "what we have at the moment." The detainees are being held in six labour camps scattered around North Korea, among them there are also those who tried to flee the country, but were caught.
And, thank the UN for helping to make it all possible!
Isn’t there some big country on their northern border?
My rant about dictators
You say that North Korea is facing a humanitarian crisis–—3 1/2 million women and children are at risk?
You mean to say that humans are in danger?
Why are they in danger?
What is the name of the royalty of the dictatorship that owns that country? Is it owned by them or is it owned by us?
Are we starving their people to death, or are they starving their own people to death?
Did you know that Kim Jung Shithead III, is the largest importer of Hennessy Cognac in the entire world? Have you not read anything about how this so-called human being lives? Don’t you know that he is living a life so rich that it easily exceeds that of any King in the history of the world?
And isn’t that new, oncoming giant, named China, right next door to North Korea, and aren’t their coffers overflowing with money right now? Why don’t they help?
Don’t you think that any time we send food to North Korea that it goes directly to the Army and the bureaucrats because this is a “good” communist country and this is the way it works–something like America where federal workers now get an easy $100,000 a year while an average common man is taking in $40,000 a year, half of which he must give back to Obama’s regime in Washington DC.
Yes, this is indeed the world we now live in.
Oh, in my passion I almost forgot to mention: the North Korean dictator has over 200 girlfriends, all on call 24 hours a day.
Mao Tse Tung in China had many more–does this not remind you of feudal days??? ... and even so do you know any dictators or kings in the past they would have hundreds and hundreds of girlfriends available to them– I mean, of course, besides, Bill Clinton…
And let’s not forget that wonderful piece of human garbage named Fidel Castro, who was once asked in a television interview how many children he had, and who replied “Who knows? I cannot count them all.”
So what do you think, liberal Americans—–are these your heroes? It certainly seems so. How many members of Congress have been to Cuba to kiss Castro’s butt?
How many ex-Presidents and how many Secretaries of State have been to North Korea to kiss Kim Jong Il’s butt?
Which was our famous president who hated the Shaw of Iran and made sure that he got kicked out–—so that now we have an Islamic regime that eliminates its opponents by raping them to death...
–oh joy.
This is what you get when you kiss a dictator’s ass. This is what you get when you are a bleeding heart liberal who feels so sorry for everyone in the world but refuses to stop evil and tyranny when they are weak and we still had a chance–do you think we have a chance now?
1.) Alcoholics
2.) The civilian population of North Korea
I pray for group 2 daily because their lives are complete nightmares for the most part. It is punishable by prison/gulag confinement or even death to be in possession of a cell phone or camera in North Korea, and it is also equally punishable if a person speaks against Kim Jong Il.
There are Secret Police all over the place, and they make people "dissappear" all the time.
It truly is "1984" come to life over there, and so much horribly more.
Please join me in praying for those people.
Yeah. china uses north korea to sell it’s nuclear and missile technology to rogue nations. It hasn’t made a step without china’s say so since the korean war and exists purely on china’s whim.
Gee, maybe the UN can help those poor people./s
This is how things work with UN: A dictator brings his/her people into famine. There is a ‘humanitarian crisis’ that demand UN to intervene. Because it’s UN project, rich countries—especially it’s the US—who do not want to participate or does ‘less than its wealth share’ will be criticized. Not a word about the dictator.
The UN cares nothing for the suffering or deaths of people except where it can be used to further their political agenda.
They are ‘’their people’’ the gov’t can starve them if it wants to. Any ‘’progressive’’ can tell you that. Especially D.C. ‘’progressives’’. Hic
Yep,
and the chi-coms are nervous about North Korea falling and 10 or 20 million starving unwashed uneducated North Koreans streaming across the border.
Sort of like what we are currently experiencing from Mexico.
But recent reports reveals that NK is sitting on something like a million tons of rice for its army. The starving civilian population is intentional.
Every bag of “humanitarian aid” helps the NK regime stay in power just a little bit longer.
TURNER: I had a great time there! I was there last year. They were nice to me. There weren't a lot of fat people walking around. They were all thin. And being thin is healthier than being fat.
Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brad-wilmouth/2007/10/14/ted-turner-fnc-blame-iraq-us-nukes-worse-iran-nukes#ixzz13MnEeAGJ
Obviously this is all lies by the UN. There is nothing wrong with North Korea. It is a paradise, Ted told me it is full of healthy people, many riding bikes to say health and be green.
NORTH KOREA IS BEST KOREA!
I will join you in this. It sounds dumb, but I never thought of praying for them before.
Yeah, alright. Reckon they need it.
UN warns of humanitarian crisis in North Korea: 3.5 million women and children affected
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I did not know that there were no men in North Korea. You learn something new everyday!
They have no evil corporations.
They have Free healthcare.
Why would any NK citizen complain?
Nice rant!
One common thing to all these countries is they are communist.
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