N. Korea: a new "mobile gulag" was created

JoongAng Ilbo ^ | 07/16/03 | Kim Jong-hyuk

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N. Korea: a new "mobile gulag" was created

Deep inside the valley of the Nang-rim Mountains... impossible to be detected by satellites

N. Korean defectors advanced the claim that N. Korea created a mobile gulag for political prisoners deep inside the valley of the Nang-rim Mountains, which is located along Young-wol, Dae-hung, and Maeng-san in south Ham-kyung province. This place cannot be picked up from satellite surveillance, according to them.

This was disclosed to S. Korean reporters by three N. Korean defectors, Kang Chol-hwan, Ahn Hyuk, Lee soon-ok and Yun Hyun, the director of the Citizen's Alliance for N. Korean Human Rights, who are visiting Washington D.C. to receive the Annual Democracy Award, which was presented by NED, the National Endowment for Democracy on July 15, 2003. They said, "The family of the former party secretary Hwan Jang-yop(note: the highest ranking defector to date) were locked up at the Sobaek Soo valley of the mountains. His son attempted to escape. He got caught and was dragged to some place unknown."

They also said, "N. Korea decided to do this in order to avoid international outcry about their gulags. This information was obtained from a testimony by another N. Korean defector who escaped to S. Korea via China after escaping this new gulag.

They complained, "N. Korea was turned into a giant gulag by the suffocating oppression of Kim Jong-il's dictatorial regime a long time ago. Nevertheless, in S. Korea, there has developed a strange trend that,if you ever raise N. Korean human right issue, you will be automatically labeled rightwing conservative."

They said, "We cannot understand why S. Korean government abstained the vote on N. Korean human right issue in Geneva last April." They also pointed out that Kim Dae-Jung's Sunshine policy has been totally unhelpful for N. Korean people.

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[yonif]

The horrors of Stalinism continue.

[monocle]

No! The horrors of socialism.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Stalinism is just socialism taken to its inevitable conclusion.

[monocle]

The choice of words should be made carefully. Most socialists are loathe to call Nazis by their correct name. By referring to Stalinism one implies that a single misguided individual was responsible for the horrors when in point of fact, as you rightfully pointed, the horrors are the inevitable result of any system which invests so much power in a single entity.

[AmericanInTokyo]

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What a serious situation.