Concentration Camps
In North Korea, concentration camps were created since there were the Nazi's concentration camps. There are six camps in North Korea : Camp 14, 15, 16, 18, 22, and 25. But Kim Jun Un denies its existence. People are taken into these camps because either one of their family member or themselves committed a "crime" such as questioning their government, secretly practicing another religion, or even ruining a picture of Kim Jun Un, their great leader. There are about 200,000 - 300,000 prisoners. The wards consider prisoners less than bugs. They are brutally punished, killed, starved to death, and are forced to do labor.
Types of Punishments :
Water Torture : The prisoner has to stand on his or her toes in a tank filled with water to his or her nose for 24 hours.
Hanging Torture : The prisoner is stripped and hung upside down from the ceiling to be violently beaten.
Box room Torture : The prisoner is detained in a very small solitary cell, where he or she could hardly sir, but not stand or lie, for three days or a week.
Kneeling Torture : The prisoner has to kneel down with a wooden bar inserted near his knee hollows to stop blood circulation. After a week the prisoner cannot walk.
Pigeon Torture : The prisoner is tied to the wall with both hands at a height of 60 cm and must crouch for many hours.
Clock torture : A pregnant woman is subjected to torture until dehydrated.
Hanging Torture : The prisoner is stripped and hung upside down from the ceiling to be violently beaten.
Box room Torture : The prisoner is detained in a very small solitary cell, where he or she could hardly sir, but not stand or lie, for three days or a week.
Kneeling Torture : The prisoner has to kneel down with a wooden bar inserted near his knee hollows to stop blood circulation. After a week the prisoner cannot walk.
Pigeon Torture : The prisoner is tied to the wall with both hands at a height of 60 cm and must crouch for many hours.
Clock torture : A pregnant woman is subjected to torture until dehydrated.
Other than getting punished, prisoners are given barely any food as a result, the only way prisoners can obtain meat is by catching rats. Mothers would cut open a pregnant rat to harvest its fetuses, roast the mouse, and feed it to sick human babies. Rats aren't the only ones getting eaten either. Female prisoners would get eaten by the guards' dogs and it is not a crime. Guards are even praised for training their dogs to be vicious.
Other Facts :
- Women’s back is curved 90 degree by the age of 45.
- Prisoners wear shoes made out of car tires.
- Pregnancy is prohibited within the camp and if the woman is found pregnant, the ward opens the woman's stomach and throw away the fetus away and execute her.
- Prisoners are forced to watch other prisoners that tried to escape get executed.
Other Facts :
- Women’s back is curved 90 degree by the age of 45.
- Prisoners wear shoes made out of car tires.
- Pregnancy is prohibited within the camp and if the woman is found pregnant, the ward opens the woman's stomach and throw away the fetus away and execute her.
- Prisoners are forced to watch other prisoners that tried to escape get executed.