Witnessing 'An Inhumane Hell'
How evil is North Korea's Stalinist regime?
This disturbing NBC report provides the answer. All of North Korea is, as one U.S. official observes, a concentration camp. Knowing that, it's difficult to imagine the fate of the men, women and children banished to a concentration camp within the concentration camp. However, the litany of human rights atrocities cited by NBC leaves nothing to the imagination. One example:
Soon Ok Lee, imprisoned for seven years at a camp near Kaechon in Pyungbuk province, described how the female relatives of male prisoners were treated. “I was in prison from 1987 till January 1993,” she told NBC News in Seoul, where she now lives. ”[The women] were forced to abort their children. They put salty water into the pregnant women’s womb with a large syringe, in order to kill the baby even when the woman was 8 months or 9 months pregnant. “And then, from time to time there a living infant is delivered. And then if someone delivers a live infant, then the guards kick the bloody baby and kill it. And I saw an infant who was crying with pain. I have to express this in words, that I witnessed such an inhumane hell.”
