[TigerLikesRooster]

My translation of the original article in Korean.

[listenhillary]

So incredibly sad. It is a good feeling to know that one man at least was able to throw off the chains.

No better illustration of the danger of authoritarian governments.

I had heard a report on NPR about a S.Korean planning to drop millions of solar powered radios in NK. Sounded like a good idea to me. Truth will set you free, if you don't starve first.

[solzhenitsyn]

TigerLikesRooster, thank you for taking the trouble to translate that letter and post it for us. It was very moving. It gives me great pity for the people of North Korea. They need and deserve freedom, and all the blessings that come with it.

[Ranger]

Thanks for the post and translation. It is rare for us in the U.S. to get a ground level perspective that this heartrending letter supplies. Why is it that the S. Koreans don't seem to be seething with righteous indignation about the starvation of so many in N. Korea? Yet at the same time the presence of U.S. troops are widely protested?

[AmericanInTokyo]

Excellent job TLR.

I encourage you (if you are likewise inclined) to use the words " 'Freepranslated' by ________" in such research posts so we can get that as a regular word in the Freeper lexicon. There is a growing number of Freepers who read critical foreign languages, who synopsize here in English like you have, thus providing stuff that may never otherwise see the light of day in the English, Western press. Thanks for your service!

Now, on this side, recently I sent an e-mail letter, trying to appear apolitical, as an academic 'researcher', to a so-called Korean rights organization which is part of the International A.N.S.W.E.R. anti-Bush, anti-America umbrella.

This group claims to stick up for the 'human rights of Koreans.' Nearly everything they have is so-called atrocities by US troops in Korea 50 years ago.

I stated specifically in my message that I had a growing concern and could they help me and confirm: the locations of several concentration camps in NORTH KOREA, and I pointed to the Fall 2002 Far East Economic Review magazine article with clear aerials of one of those North Korean death and work camps near China for political prisoners/Christians, and asked them to briefly help me research (or provide other information resources) re: the rumored terrible human rights situation there in the DPRK.

I wrote it clearly, politely and respectfully asking for them, as Koreans and Korean experts who are also concerned, to help me.

I sent it over nearly TWO WEEKS AGO.

Do you think this communist front job for that scumbag, phony "pro-peace" shill of an organization International A.N.S.W.E.R. ever got back to me or otherwise showed the slightest concern?

[Alamo-Girl]

Jeepers. Thanks for the heads up!

[MeekOneGOP]

Thank you so much for sharing this letter and for translating it. My dear friend Ming (the second part of my screen name) is from mainland China and has been to North Korea. She has related to me how very poor North Korea is and how terrible it is to see so many poor people starving to death. This letter expresses so much and so well . . .

[MeekOneGOP]

Mark Steyn (click below for entire article):

Take a look at a satellite picture of the peninsula by night: South Korea ablaze in electric light, the North in darkness. In Far East Asia, North Korea’s the hole in the doughnut.

North Korea at Night