Prison camps in North Korea

[Duer 157099]

Holy cow, I just read "Escape From Camp 14" about the prison camps in N. Korea. Shocking and disturbing. Reminds me of descriptions of the Nazi camps. This shit still happens.

Go to Google Maps and type in these coordinates: 39.576N, 126.071E

http://asiasociety.org/blog/asia/interview-author-blaine-harden-north-koreas-gulags

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shin_Dong-hyuk_%28human_rights_activist%29

http://hrnk.org/wp-content/uploads/The_Hidden_Gulag.pdf

[Drunken Irishman]

1. The worst part about those who escape...

Their families are generally murdered. Everyone. Even if they didn't escape, or plan the escape, themselves. Anyone associated with the person who escapes is either sent to those camps or executed. It's an awful situation.

[RKP5637]

2. Maybe I'm over the top saying this and if so I'll understand, but sometimes

I get the uncomfortable feeling that some of the rabid part of the RW would think this is a good thing in the US if one didn't comply with their direction.

[Duer 157099]

4. It would be over the top if we didn't have evidence of humans being capable of this

but history shows us time and again that humans are more than capable of it.

Not over the top at all. Just a firm grasp of reality.

[RKP5637]

5. Thanks! I know sometimes I can get a bit off on hyperbolic rants. n/t

[Duer 157099]

3. That was how the subject of the book came to be born in the camp

His father's brothers escaped, and so the whole family that remained was thrown into the camp for life.