Sunday, October 18, 2009

North Korea gulags ' hold 150,000'

According to the article " North Korea gulags 'hold 150,000' from BBC news, there are about 154,000 political prisoners in their six prison. The prisoner are basically people who tried to free the country from dictatorship or the citizen who regarded as disrespectful for the government. They are forced to work more than 10 hours without being given enough foods, and medical care. North Korea claimed that this was not a violation of human rights. Lee Myung-bak, the president of South Korea, promised to take some actions against current South Korea's ignoring attitude towards North Korea's violation of human rights.

by Yuri Iwasaki

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