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the horrifying situation in North Korea

Date: January 30, 2003 | 27 Dhu-l-Qidah 1423 Hijriah
Blog: veiled4allah
Subjects: northkorea, commentary, gulag
Ya Allah, this is what gives you nightmares. I've been reading about the gulags of North Korea, in which an estimated 400,000 people have died since 1972. Up to 200,000 people are still imprisoned there today, according to this report. When a person is accused of a political crime, they and their family are sent to the camps. There is also a policy of infanticide and forced abortions in the prison camps. Besides this, there is Kim Jong Il's complicity in the famine that has so far killed up to 3 million North Koreans. This bastard makes Saddam Hussein look like an amateur.
~ Posted by Al-Muhajabah, a member of the reality-based community, at 11:47 PM

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one of the top five commentors on this blog! Jonathan Edelstein said: Total comments: 91   gold stargold stargold stargold stargold star

North Korea is one of the few places where analogies to Nazi Germany are actually appropriate, and the "Dear Leader" has come up with a few twists even the Nazis didn't imagine.

I disagree, though, with the way the author of the gulag article describes forced labor as a "communist" aspect of the North Korean labor camps. Forced labor and slavery have existed since the dawn of time, and prisoners have often been used as forced laborers. The only difference in communist systems is that an ideological fig leaf is placed over the labor camps.


~ Posted at January 31, 2003 06:38 AM | Comment Permalink
moderator Al-Munaqabah said: Total comments: 996   gold stargold stargold stargold stargold star

You're right about that, of course. I'm speculating that the author may have meant to distinguish between the Nazi camps and the Soviet camps not to make a general statement about Communist camps. God knows best.

~ Posted at January 31, 2003 07:59 AM | Comment Permalink

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