North Korea Human Rights Violations

Another Adolf

All around the world, almost everyday, North Korea finds its way into the headlines of many news articles and magazines. This may be due to the fact that this tiny country is one of the only isolationist countries still in existence, or even the fact that it is one of the few countries to still be in “war”, even though there isn’t any fighting commencing. One potential difference that North Korea has that most countries of the world do not is that of a harsh totalitarian dictatorship regime. Kim Jong-un has been the head leader of this isolationist country for over four years now, and has been the ringleader for all the aggressive actions towards the western civilizations such as the US, Japan, and China. KJU or Kim Jong-un

In February of 2014, the United Nations released a harsh report on North Korea, criticizing its supposed human rights abuses as without "anything to be comparable in the contemporary world” (Byman 1). The thirty-six-page report accesses appalling details to which the world had never heard previously to the report. A majority of the report explains how North Korea being a totalitarian state imposes hard conditions on its people and eliminates basic freedoms that all humans should

Although the North Korea nation is very specific and censored when it comes to releasing information, the United Nations Commission of Inquiry on human rights in North Korea, based the entirety of the report on a years worth of confidential interviews with another 240 victims, including people who'd spent time in North Korean prison camps, public hearings with about 80 witnesses and private and other experts (Byman 1). When the U.N team requested access into the nation to experience the information firsthand, Kim Jong-un had denied access of their entry. In North Korea, "hundreds of thousands of political prisoners have perished in these camps over the past five decades," the report estimates (Byman 3). "The unspeakable atrocities that are being committed against inmates of the prison camps resemble the horrors of camps that totalitarian states established during the 20th century” (Byman 3) according to head investigators from the UN