North Korea's Human Rights Violations

North Korea, a mysterious and isolated country that is notorious for its human rights violations. When comparing North Korea to countries such as the United States, North Korea would be seen as hell. United States is known for its freedom, and many of its citizens have rights. North Korea, is quite the opposite, freedom is nonexistent. Everything a North Korean does is monitored and controlled by the government, starting from where they live, to the occupations of each individual citizen. It is all chosen by the government. North Korea is the only country where labour camps still exist, though they deny its prevalence in the country. Even actions that seem inconsequential, such as listening to music from South Korea, is a punishable offence

North Korea tends to exaggerate many information as well as not allowing anyone outside of North Korea visiting their sites and blocking many photos that show the insides of North Korea. Because of this technique, North Korea can get away with what they do in their country. Without the current technology we have today, no one would know that North Korea had labour camps, but because of the satellite images, the world now knows about the camps. Isolation as become an important role to hiding the human rights and if it wasn’t for defectors telling their stories. North Korea were able to keep many of their human rights story on the low, but as technology advances, North Korea’s secrets become world news. One major reason why people don’t know what is going on inside that country is that its media is heavily censored, and the news outlets are North Korean exclusive as well as only broadcasting the good things while not cover things such as labour camps and poverty. In the United States, the country is much more open about its issues unlike North Korea, the population acknowledges the flaws and tries to fix them instead of hiding their flaws and making lies to cover them. United States media report almost anything that goes on in the country, even shootings and poverty, most of these are not covered my North Korean news in order to keep their perfect image. Isolation plays a big part in human

People in North Korea are suffering because of one leader: Kim Jong Un. Because of his ruling style, no one is allowed to speak out against him. His strategy is to stay in power until his death, and he has his own country under his control. In the USA, if the people don’t like the government, they can overthrow it, and people can also critique the government without getting thrown in a World War 2 style labour