Labor Camps In North Korea

In North Korea, forced under a dictatorship, labor camps are all over the country ending lives and killing the nation’s people slowly and systematically. Due to the restrictive and private nature of the country; these people's stories are often untold. Their effect on the global society unspoken. Now from first hand accounts and advanced technology, the true horrors of these prison and labor camps has begun to be uncovered. From this, the general public can start to be educated on what has been happening to North Korean people and the way it’s affected the world as a whole. The dictionary definition of labor camp is, “a prison camp in which a regime of hard labor is enforced.” (Merriam-Webster) In North Korea the people are controlled by a …show more content…
This article brings up the numbers that have been given my North Korea, although it is hard to trust these statistics as Kim Jong-un likes to portray things not as bad as they are. These numbers still support my conclusion that North Korean labor camps are something that the general public needs to be educated on, as it’s so many people’s lives. From that, the answer to my earlier question is actually simple: since North Korea is such a controlled and shut off society that the only way to stop these camps would be to completely get rid of the regime. Not only is this suicidal because of North Korea’s nuclear weapons- it would totally destabilize North Korea. Japan and the United States would have regional instability, South Korea’s economy would be seriously changed because of reunification, and not to mention all the refugees flooding into surrounding countries. This draws a parallel to the Holocaust, as many countries then (including America) also didn’t intercede because they were unwilling to house the influx of refugees. Except now, with nuclear weapons the stakes are even higher. The real issue is that this is currently a no-win situation. If people did try to intervene, South Korea and the world most likely face damage from North Korea’s large army and military power. Inaction seems like the only plausible option, although this is all going with the assumption that North Korea would never cooperate. There is always a chance that North Korea would be open to some kind of negotiation to help the people. The problem is, it’s just too