How Dennis Rodman can help the North Korean people (Letter to Dennis)

Washington Post ^ | 12/17/2013 | Shin Dong-hyuk

[Responsibility2nd]

Shin Dong-hyuk is a human rights activist and the only person born in a North Korean labor camp known to have escaped to the West.

Dear Mr. Rodman:

I have never met you, and until you visited North Korea in February I had never heard of you. Now I know very well that you are a famous, retired American basketball player with many tattoos. I also understand that you are returning this week to North Korea to coach basketball and perhaps visit for the third time with the country’s dictator, Kim Jong Un, who has become your friend.

I want to tell you about myself. I was born in 1982 in Camp 14, a political prison in the mountains of North Korea. For more than 50 years, Kim Jong Un, his father and his grandfather have used prisons such as Camp 14 to punish, starve and work to death people who the regime decides are a threat. Prisoners are sent to places like Camp 14 without trial and in secret. A prisoner’s “crime” can be his relation by blood to someone the regime believes is a wrongdoer or wrong-thinker. My crime was to be born as the son of a man whose brother fled to South Korea in the 1950s.

You can see satellite pictures of Camp 14 and four other labor camps on your smartphone. At this very moment, people are starving in these camps. Others are being beaten, and someone soon will be publicly executed as a lesson to other prisoners to work hard and obey the rules. I grew up watching these executions, including the hanging of my mother.

[Responsibility2nd]

Very sobering letter.

While we fret over Ducky Dynasty issues, untold numbers lanquish in poltical prisons in N. Korea.

[Gay State Conservative]

When Rodman meets that murdering punk pal of his that pal,probably for the only time in his life,will be the sanest individual in the room.

[knarf]

As we continue to slide into our own dictatorship, I am hard pressed to even care about another nation’s dictatorship.

[spawn44]

WE TU LOH is worse off than I thought if he is seeking any advice from HE TO TALL

[OrangeHoof]

Does Dennis know how to read?

[SkyDancer]

Just let the NK press know he’s a CIA spy.

[Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America]

I can take one guess as to why Dennis goes to North Korea. He can pick any girl he wants, compliments of Dear Leader of NK:

[jonascord]

Whatever you do, don’t tell the DPRK intell service that Denny has a radio transmitter in his lower intestine to record New Leader’s wise remarks...