"Often described as the world's largest prison camp, no country is more deserving of international condemnation on human rights conditions than North Korea. ... Millions of North Koreans have perished in silence from starvation, torture and execution in recent decades." --- Human Rights Watch

¡°North Korea is the worst human rights situation in the world today. While there are many tragic situations and terrible atrocities occurring in the world today, the North Korean people are the most isolated, most persecuted, and most suffering.¡± --- Suzanne Scholte, Seoul Peace Prize Laureate 2008

"Later -- in 10 years, or in 60 -- it will surely turn out that quite a lot was known in 2004 about the camps of North Korea. It will turn out that information collected by various human rights groups, South Korean churches, oddball journalists and spies added up to a damning and largely accurate picture of an evil regime. It will also turn out that there were things that could have been done, approaches the South Korean government might have made, diplomatic channels the U.S. government might have opened, pressure the Chinese might have applied. Historians in Asia, Europe and here will finger various institutions, just as we do now, and demand they justify their past actions. And no one will be able to understand how it was possible that we knew of the existence of the gas chambers but failed to act." --- Anne Applebaum "Auschwitz Under Our Noses" February 4, 2004 Washington Post

¡°The North Korean regime¡¯s obsession with racial purity has led to the killing of disabled infants and forced abortions for women suspected of conceiving their babies by Chinese fathers.¡± --- Michael Sheridan, October 15, 2006 Times of London

"The food crisis is now as serious as it was in 1995," said Tae Keung-ha, president of Open Radio which broadcasts into North Korea from the South with US funding. Tae, speaking at a seminar in Seoul, estimated between 100,000 to half a million people had starved to death this year. --- October 4, 2008 Asia Times Online

GENOCIDE IN NORTH KOREA

CONCENTRATION CAMPS:

-- An estimated up to 1 million people have been killed in concentration camps of the most cruel and unspeakable brutality since 1972

-- Three generations of entire families can be imprisoned because a relative is suspected of being unfaithful to the N.K. government.

-- Human rights violations in North Korea include: Gas chambers, chemical and medical experimentation on political prisoners, forced abortions and infanticide, systematic torture, starvation, rape, slavery (brutal forced labor), arbitrary imprisonment, public executions

MASS STARVATION:

-- An estimated over 4 million north Koreans have died of starvation since 1995

-- Enough food aid has been sent to North Korea to feed the entire population but the NK regime has diverted it to the military, ruling party, and sold the food aid on the black markets, leaving the average north Korean unaware of food aid from the west

-- Recent reports indicate that the starvation is growing more and more widespread, with an estimated 1,000 people dying of starvation everyday.

THE WORST HUMAN RIGHTS CRISIS IN THE WORLD TODAY:

-- North Korea is the worst human rights violating country in the world today (Newsweek International, July 9, 2001)

-- North Korea is the worst persecutor of Christians in the world today (Open Doors)

-- There has been a genocide which has continued unrestrained for over half a century with almost no international attention or action to intervene

REFUGEES WITH NO PROTECTION HIDING IN CHINA:

-- In North Korea, leaving the country or assisting others to leave is considered a capital offense punishable by execution.

-- Yet in order to survive, hundreds of thousands of North Koreans have fled to China

-- China has an agreement with North Korea to forcibly repatriate all refugees and aggressively hunts and returns them back to North Korea where refugees have faced torture, imprisonment, and execution; countless North Koreans have been killed and families torn apart.

-- Women who become pregnant while in China are forced to have abortions and infanticide is carried out on children born to Chinese fathers.

-- China continues to do this in violation of International Law and the 1951 UN Convention on the Status of Refugees to which it is a signatory.

-- Without rights or protection, many North Koreans, including children, become victims of human trafficking and other horrific crimes

80% OF NORTH KOREAN WOMEN IN CHINA SEXUALLY ENSLAVED:

-- An estimated 500,000 north Koreans have fled to China for survival. Most of them are women, and an estimated 80% of those women are raped and sexually trafficked (enslaved).

-- Even if the north Korean women have children and are forced into marriage with their enslavers, they are still not recognized as legal by the government and if found will be forcibly repatriated to North Korea by Chinese authorities

-- China jails humanitarian workers who try to help refugees, refuses the UN High Commission for Refugees access to the North Korean asylum seekers, and blocks the refugees from seeking resettlement in countries willing to resettle them.