Inside North Korea: Unbelievable Excerpts From UN Report #2

Activists

… and as for activists spreading messages, forget it…

The Commission was informed by a witness of a young worker who had hung up a few dozen hand-printed posters in the city of Nampo that called for the overthrow of Kim Jong-il in June 2001. This was considered a major political incident and KPA Security Command, Ministry of People’s Security and State Security Department formed a joint task-force to investigate the case.

Kim Jong-il was notified and personally issued orders to track down the suspects and persecute them severely. Over the course of 5 months, the security agencies took writing samples from every inhabitant above the age of 10. The man was caught after he confided about his conduct to a friend who was an informant.

Despite intense torture, the man did not implicate any co-conspirators and the investigators concluded that he had acted alone. For political reasons, however, the security agencies spread rumours that the man had been corrupted by viewing foreign movies and pornography and eventually agreed to commit the crime as a spy acting on behalf of the USA.

Based on a conviction by the Military Supreme Court, the man was executed by hanging. His immediate family and the entire city population were forced to watch. The wife of the victim was forced to immediately divorce him when he was arrested so as to avoid guilt by association. His mother and two sisters were sent to Kwanliso No. 15 (a forced labour camp).

All that for a few posters. That’s why people are so terrified, they just won’t stop until they find someone to blame and punish publicly and brutally.

This theme is repeated throughout their penal code. If you do something “wrong” not only will you suffer, but the entirety of your family, often three generations. From these examples it gives you a clearer understanding of how an entire nation can be held down and kept in the dark about the rest of the world. The most horrible thing about it is that the wall of deceit seems almost completely impenetrable.

Next time we’ll tackle women’s rights, the disabled population and their hideous class system.

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