According to a new report by the United Nations Human Rights Office (OHCHR), the people of North Korea tolerate the most rigorous repression in the world, allegedly used to share foreign media, including the popular South Korean television plays, with the death sentence.
The 14-Page document expands how the lives of normal North Korean people have become quite difficult in the last decade.
ReportOn the basis of interview with around 300 people who have managed to leave North Korea, the government in Pyongyang has refused to provide access to the United Nations investigators. The North Korean government has rejected the findings of the report.
The report found that among other things, the government continued to “exercise the total control over the population and severely banned the joy of fundamental rights and freedom, leaving their own political, social or economic decisions.”
Draconian law on outside information
It identified three laws, “those who criminalize access to unauthorized foreign information and restrict the consumption or spread of information from the ‘hostile’ nations (for example, publication, music and films) and use linguistic manifestations that do not suit ideology and culture.”
“Thesis laws raise serious concerns of illegal sanctions on the right to freedom of law opinion and freedom of expression,” it said. “Then provide for severe punishment including death penalty for protected speech.”
The report stated that the use of death punishment for watching foreign films or listening to music from South Korea is more serious than murder and “unlike the right to life”, the report states.
James Henon, head of the United Nations Human Rights Office for North Korea, said an unlike number of people was already executed under new laws to distribute a foreign TV series, which also included a popular ke-drama from his southern neighbor.
‘Self-criticism session’ requires
Elections are mostly symbolic, the report states that citizens need to continuously participate in the “self-criticism session” and go through continuous indigenization. Therefore, it was noted that the freedom of the movement is becoming increasingly banned and the defects have reported torture and mistress in detecting facilities.
“Many reported that he had seen the deaths in custody, mainly torture and sick-healing, overwork, malnutrition and suicide,” it was found that the details were found to be found with severe decrease in food and medical care in the details.
Kim Yugin fly north with her mother in the 1990s and now works with defactor organizations in Seoul. From talking with recent arrival, their number is less in recent years as the North Korean government increases vigilance against the wild-from being saved, it agrees that the already serious situation in the north is deteriorating.
“The government controls every part of people’s lives and thus controls them,” he told DW.
“The government has recently changed the law so that it is illegal for the common people to sell their rice or corn or other staple foodstuff in the market,” he said. “Now, the only way to get that basic requirements is to visit government shops where prices are high.”
‘Total control’ of North Korean people
“People and the government know that if the governance controls food, they can make life more difficult for anyone that does not follow their rules,” he said.
Kim said that there have been the most dragonian changes around foreign influences on people’s lives.
“People can be executed to see material from abroad or share with others,” he said. “There can be a lot of laws to be used to punish people; this is completely controlled.”
Along with a blanket ban on forebin films, television shows and music, Clampdown has expanded until a haircut that is not in the list of styles approved by the state, not in the list of clothes, which looks foreigners or worn in a style that is considered, or the words or words in the south.
“The laws are very strong now, but I think it simply means that previous laws have not worked and introduced new laws that Kim Jong Un is afraid of how his people live outside North Korea, what is the Vepen, what is Vepain,” Kim Yujin said.
Other groups promoting BEE for human rights in northern dedication with the United Nations report, although a South Korean academic and worker’s lyrics with a South Korean academic and worker’s lyrics to prevent the massacre in North Korea, says that the world’s most repeated state experience can not communicate those difficult ships alone.
“The condition of human rights in the answer is definitely worse and I don’t like to think about that the people there like to think about how to live,” Heer said. “On the other hand, we can see what people see or see in the list and the way access to food is limited is limited as a sign of weakness in governance.
“If the leadership felt that they had complete control of people and society, they would not need to pressurize the common people.”
A solution to the challenges of human rights of the answer is difficult, he accepted, some suggested that the outside world can offer more aid, increase people’s standard of living and “make the government feel safe because people are more material.”
Russia, close relations with China
However, he agrees that Pyongyang’s trade and security relations with Russia and China suggests that it no longer needs help from anywhere else and will continue along the path of ruling rule.
Kim Yujin is very torn between helping the people of her motherland and cooperating with Pyongyang to maintain pressure on the governance.
“I am very disappointed with the policies of the new government in South Korea, which has stopped all radio broadings in the north,” she said. “Those broadcasting were only one of the methods that would get information about what was happening in the outside world.
“I worry that this government is going to try to solve the problem with the answer, just getting good,” he said. “But this is good for governance, not people.”
The United Nations report discovered some limited reforms, as a low use of violence by the guards in details facilities, and new laws that appear to strengthen the guarantee of fair tests.
Edited by: Keith Walker