Apparently, we won’t be seeing Half-Koreans of the Day from the DPRK over at Seeing Eye Blog anytime soon. This SBS report (in Korean, sorry), referring to the report on the North Korea’s gulags mentioned in my previous post, explain that pregnant North Korean women repatriated from China are forced to undergo abortions if the father of the child is Chinese. New-born infants fathered by Chinese men are killed. According to the report, the North Korean government does this because it “cannot feed and keep alive the children of foreign fathers.” Now, like all reports like this, one has to take it with a fair amount of skepticism. Unfortunately, given that racially “impure” children are not particularly well accepted in South Korea, and I’d have to imagine that the racism and xenophobia in magnified by a factor of at least ten in North Korea, it’s not at all improbable that such forced abortions and infanticide takes place.
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I’m glad that you pointed this out. It’s not the only similarity between North Korean policy and the terrible legacies of Nazism. There are many others. The North Koreans also practice ‘racial therapy’ or ‘eugenics’ which results (among other things..) in all handicapped people of any kind being sterilized and then sent to concentration camps. This is why you never see and blind or crippled people in North Korea. The death rate in these camps is very high, and most handicapped people die long before they reach adulthood..Rumor has it that they, and now orphans as well, are systematically tattooed and then placed in prisons where they are starved to death.
They also share with the Nazis this tendency to regard science as ’sacred’, and science is often misused in the same ways that the Nazis did. for example, North Korea tests their chemical and biological weapons on human beings..like the Nazis did.
They also practice techniques which are designed to create a deliberate ‘numbing’ of society to these ever-increasing barbarities. The North Korean regime is a death cult, plain and simple. They resemble other cults, like the Aum cult in Japan, far more than any normal countries.
There is a lot more. Hearing about these crimes is what first made me realize the importance of changing the situation in North Korea. Regimes that go down *this* path *never* end up well.
Read the two URLs below for some examples of more, or read down for one account of what happens in one prison camp
http://ncafe.com/northkorea/Su.....w_llus.pdf
http://ncafe.com/northkorea/An.....timony.pdf
(Warning.. don’t read these stories in the evening, or you won’t be
able to sleep.)
Babies Born and Killed
WITNESSED BY SO LEE, FORMER FEMALE PRISONER OF A POLITICAL PRISON (From her US Senate testimony)
When I miraculously survived paratyphoid in 1989, I was sent to the medical
room to report. When I arrived at the medical room, I noticed six pregnant women
awaiting delivery. I was told to wait for my supervisor to come and take me over.
While I was there, three women delivered babies on the cement floor without any
blankets. It was horrible to watch the prison doctor kicking the pregnant women
with his boots. When a baby was born, the doctor shouted, ??????Kill it quickly. How can
a criminal in the prison expect to have a baby? Kill it.??р꽓??р꽓 The women covered their
faces with their hands and wept. Even though the deliveries were forced by injection,
the babies were still alive when born. The prisoner/nurses, with trembling
hands, squeezed the babies??р꽓 necks to kill them. The babies, when killed, were
wrapped in a dirty cloth, put into a bucket and taken outside through a backdoor.
I was so shocked with that scene that I still see the mothers weeping for their babies
in my nightmares. I saw the baby-killing twice while I was in the prison.
When I went back to the medical room for routine duty a few days later, Shin-
Ok Kim and Mi-Ok Cho, the prisoner/nurses working in the medical room, were sobbing
and one of them told me, ??????Accountant, we are devils worse than beasts. They
say that the dead babies are used to make new medicine for experiments.??р꽓??р꽓 I was
so afraid that I closed her mouth with my finger and said, ??????I never heard you say
this.??р꽓??р꽓 I hurried to leave from their presence.
I was sent to the same medical room once again when I recovered from pleurisy
in 1992. This time, there were some ten pregnant women in the small medical room.
They were all injected to induce forced delivery and suffering from pain for many
hours. A woman, so undernourished and weak, could not endure the delivery and
died during labor. The prisoner/nurse there whispered to me that it is more difficult
to deliver a dead baby than a living baby.
The other pregnant women looked so pale from the pain, and they had sweat on
their faces. If they groanned from the pain, the doctor mercilessly kicked their belly
hard and shouted, ??????Shut up! Don??р꽓t feign pain!??р꽓??р꽓 I was waiting for my supervisor to
take charge of me from the doctor at the corridor outside. I heard the crying voice
of Byung-Ok Kim, 32 years old, and peeped into the room through the half-open
door. She had just delivered a baby and cried, ??????Sir, please save the baby. My parents-
in-law are anxiously waiting for the baby. Please, please save the baby.??р꽓??р꽓 She
was out of her mind with sorrow. All the other women remained quiet and she was
the only woman crying and begging loudly. The doctor was taken momentarily bysurprise. But soon, he regained himself and shouted, ??????You want to die, eh? Kill the
baby!??р꽓??р꽓 He kicked her hard.
Then, the Chief Medical Officer came in and said, ??????Who was it yelling like that?
Put her in the punishment cell!??р꽓??р꽓 The Chief Medical Officer kicked her hard several
times and had her dragged to the punishment cell because she could not hold herself
up. This is one of the scenes that I will never forget. She died shortly after she
was released from the cell.
There is much more..
Please read David Hawks report at:
http://www.hrnk.org/pr-oct2103.html
It’s just flipping amazing (in much the derogatory sense) that people in the world allow this to happen. They turn a blind eye and pretend it will just all go away or that it doesn’t even exist. Those that have survived this or fight this, their stories are buried to protect agendas and to protect people from the reality of life.
Bloody hell…
Good Lord I hope that doesn’t make me sound like a liberal….
Well, Christopher, actually its historically been more common than not that the world (and notably, the US) sits by idly while genocidal acts are committed.
Read up on your history.
Only due to the US habbit of willing ignorance. We having been born and bred on heros and fantasy stories could never stand idly by while nightmares like this take place in the world, but when your only 1 out of 100 people who know (not just believe, but KNOW) that things like this are going on then it makes the point moot.
Take a reality TV camera, kill the censors of a major network and hijack thier TV feed, capture for a few days the daily happenings of a few gulags in North Korea and shove it into the face of the majority of US citizens for them to see and not turn away. Americans react very swiftly to nightmares that they recognize in front of them, specially ones they cant turn off.
Do that and you will have US marines in every major city of North Korea within a week. But with the current distribution of information it will never happen.