Join the Campaign for North Korea

China and Laos both seem to consider their own power more important than saving North Korean citizens.They sustains their relationships with North Korea so refuse to consider North Korean Defectors refugees and sends any refugees found back to North Korea where they face certain death.

One of the easier steps that can save lives today is getting the neighbouring countries to accept North Korean defectors as refugees. This not only saves lives but tells the North Korean government that it doesn’t have power over it’s neighbours and strengthens it’s opposition. It is also unlikely to cause any military threats on North Korea's behalf.

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Sign this petition to campaign against the countries that send back NK defectors

And now just to remind you that whilst these are serious issues they can still be laughed at:

"I think China will soon tell that pudgy little creep with the bad haircut and the binoculars to sit down and shut up."

Websites to visit:

http://www.dailynk.com/english/read.php?cataId=nk03100&num=2172 
A 2008 Chinese march against sending back defectors

http://www.timeslive.co.za/world/2013/05/30/u.n.-concerned-about-north-korean-defectors-in-china

The Un’s reaction to Laos sending back child refugees in May

Cannibalism in North Korea?

As food becomes more scarce people in poverty are forced to look else where for food. Some at their most extreme revert to cannibalism. A North Korean who escaped, "One of his strongest thoughts was … if he hadn't taken steps to leave North Korea, he would've become a North Korean who ate human flesh," an interpreter for Mr Jeong told news.com.au. North Koreans are becoming more and more desperate, as they are starving to death. These people in need are in dire need for assistance, as they sacrifice family for their own needs as matters get worse.

To Read more:

http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/392610/North-Korean-reveals-cannibalism-is-common-after-escaping-starving-state

Propaganda in North Korea

Propaganda is displayed in many ways, some include:

• Posters
• Films (cartoons especially)
• Music
• Art

North Korea uses propaganda to develop hatred against other countries, so if war breaks out no questions will be asked and generations of people will be against America and its allies. North Korea creates cartoons full of propaganda. Cartoons and other animated films carry political and military messages aimed at the young people of North Korea. The posters focus on military might, Utopian society and devotion to the state and the leader’s. The Kim’s have had hymns written for them and are repeatedly played throughout the country. Art is often used to depict military influence and is used to popularise the army.

Nightmares for the Children

North Koreans have been consistently wrapped in lies about korea’s foreign relations, concocted by state lead newspapers, for so many years that when defectors come out of North Korea they are greatly struck by the reality. America are seen as devils, so much so that young North Korean children have nightmares about them.

Read more:

http://www.nknews.org/2013/03/i-used-to-have-nightmares-about-americans/

North Korea's Nuclear Weapons Development Timeline

1985

North Korea joins the Treaty of the non-proliferation of Nuclear Weapons as a non-nuclear weapon state.

1986

They start their operation of a five-megawatt nuclear reactor at Yongbyon after seven years of plan with Soviet help.

1993

They say they will quit the nuclear non-proliferation treaty, but later delays their withdrawal.

1994

They sign an agreement with the US under which the North shuts down the plutonium-based Yongbyon nuclear reactor in exchange for help in building two nuclear reactors for producing electricity.

2002

January 29

The US president, George Bush, labeled North Korea, Iran and Iraq an "axis of evil".

October 4

Washington says North Korea admitted to a visiting US delegation that it has a uranium enrichment program.

November 21

US-led consortium says it is suspending construction of the two new reactors.

2003

January 11

They withdraw from the nuclear non-proliferation treaty.

August 27-29

They join first round of six-nation nuclear talks in Beijing, which include China, Japan, Russia, South Korea and the US.

2005

February 10

They announce they have nuclear weapons.

2006

October 9

They hold an underground nuclear test blast.

2007

February 13

They agree to a six-nation talk to take first steps to disarmament, after the US moves to help free some $25m frozen in North Korean accounts.

July 14

North Korea shuts down its Yongbyon reactor.

September 6

Israeli warplanes bomb a Syrian nuclear reactor site allegedly built with North Korean design help.

October 3

The six countries at nuclear talks agree that North Korea will provide a complete declaration of its nuclear programs and disable facilities at its main reactor complex by December 31.

November 5

They start disabling the Yongbyon reactor under the watch of US experts.

December 31

They miss its deadline for declaring all its nuclear programmes.

2008

February 26

The New York Philharmonic performs in Pyongyang, in the highest-level cultural exchange between the US and North Korea since the 1950-53 Korean War.

April 24

The White House says North Korea assisted Syria's secret nuclear program and that the nuclear reactor destroyed by Israel was not intended for peaceful purposes.

May 8

North Korea gives the US more than 18,000 pages of records on the Yongbyon reactor after discussions between the two countries to resolve disagreements over what its nuclear declaration will include.

May 16

The US announces it will provide North Korea with 50,000 tonnes of food aid as a humanitarian gesture unrelated to the nuclear talks.

June 26

US begins steps to remove North Korea from list of states sponsoring terrorism after Pyongyang submitted inventory of its nuclear activities.

August 26

Pyongyang suspends disablement of nuclear facilities, accusing US of reneging on disarmament agreement.

September 3

South Korea says reconstruction has started at North Korea's Yongbyon complex.

September 24

UN nuclear inspectors expelled from North Korea, which pledges to resume plutonium processing.

October 12

Pyongyang says will resume dismantling nuclear weapons programme after US removes North Korea from list of terrorism-sponsoring states.

November 12

The relationship between North and South Korea get worse with Pyongyang announcing that it will close border crossings in December.

2009

February 24

Speculation mounts that North Korea plans long-range missile tests in defiance of American warnings not to destabilise region.

March 30

US and Japan deploy anti-missile batteries on land and sea to shoot down possible debris from the expected missile test although US insists has no intention of shooting down missile itself.

April 3

Barack Obama warns North Korea cannot go ahead with missile tests with permission.

April 4

Pyongyang launches a long-range rocket over Japan, drawing international disapproval.

Absolute Multi-Party Totalitarian Hereditary Military

North Korea call itself the 'Democratic People's Republic of Korea'. That would suggest that the people of North Korea have the ability to vote. However this is not the case. A dictatorship is a government that has the power to govern without consent of those being governed. This government is usually one person or a small group of people.

No one knows how North Korea works, the internal political structure is unknown. However, as far as we can tell it is technically an Absolute Multi-Party Totalitarian Hereditary Military Dictatorship. Multi-Party Totalitarian basically means, one can vote but there is only one name on the ballet and anyone who attempts a different vote is named an enemy of the state and is arrested.

Hereditary Military Dictatorship means, that it is an inheritable dictatorship and a dictator controls the army. The people of North Korea honestly believe they live in a powerful country due to their dictators threatening countries like America. Though their threats are ludicrous, they have been given what they want, in the past as an appeasement.

Prison Camps in North Korea

• North Korea has, or had a population of 24 million people, somewhere between 150,000 and 200,000 have ‘disappeared’. On satellite images, one can see a growing network of concentration camps in the country. And witnesses, mostly escapees, can confirm that they are exactly what everyone feared.
• 20-25% of the prison population is believed to die annually.
• People are often executed for a variety of reasons. ALL prisoners MUST watch.
• Prisoners are starved, leading to big heads and bloated stomachs. The supplied food is cornmeal and cabbage gruel. Often prisoners will eat rats and insects which they have caught to keep them alive.
• Categorisation of prisoners exists. If someone was 170cm, they should be 53.5kg-72.2kg. However in the camp the healthiest people (level 1) are 42kg. Once they have dropped to 40kg (level 2), they are moved to a less physically draining task, however it is still too big a strain for most. When they drop to 38kg or less (level 3), they are on the brink of death, and no change to their labour is deemed necessary.
• The average life expectancy, not including deaths under 5yrs old and executions, is 40yrs old. By 45, most woman's backs are bent 90
• Guards often terrorise and torture their captives. More often then not, this is for fun. The methods of torture are appalling. Fire is a common tool, and being eaten alive by the guard's dogs is not unusual. Small accidents and mistakes can lead to loss of fingers, ears and toes. Clock torture is used as a form of entertainment by the guards. Torturees must create a clock time, given to them by the torturer, with their hands. When they have, they are given another one to perform. This continues until they collapse from dehydration.
• Pregnancy is strictly banned unless, as a "reward" you are granted permission and the guards arrange a "marriage". If a woman, without permission, is found to be pregnant, the wards will cut her open, throw away the foetus and THEN execute her.
• They believe in the practice of '3 generation' punishment.This means that if a crime is committed the criminal will be put in a prison camp, as well as their families. If their families have children, those children will grow up in the camps. After 3 generations, their children are free to go.