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North Korea won't change its repressive ways

North Korea won't change its repressive ways
29.10.2014 23:32
In North Korea's utopian society, the very words "human rights" do not need to exist -- because it's so perfect, the regime maintains.

The North Korean regime controls and monitors the usage of the very words. The concept is not even taught. I had never even heard of the term "human rights" when I was in North Korea.It also strongly denies the existence of the political prison camp system throughout the country.It maintains this position even though I was born in the most infamous, political prison camp in North Korea: Camp 14. Even now, there are people who are born into a life of an inmate in a political prison camp.North Korea also denies committing human rights violations, threatens and intimidates defector activists working to raise awareness of human rights issues, and attacking and criticizing those who have testified during the United Nations Commission of Inquiry's investigation, calling these defectors "human scum."North Korea has also launched personal attacks on me, labeling me "human scum" and releasing a statement that my testimony is all based on lies.The dictatorship in North Korea has never been honest or truthful for more than six decades it has been in existence.Could North Korea change?The North Korean dictatorial regime should not just emptily deny that these political prison camps exist. If they are truly honorable and fair they should immediately allow an international inspection delegation, comprised of myself and organizations such as Amnesty International or Human Rights Watch, or the United Nations, to be able to conduct on-the-ground visitations to the political prison camps. These delegations must include political prison survivors like myself and other defectors.(CNN)Bakudaily.Az

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