North Korea Nathan Jones, Jordan Elliott, Kimberly Davis
Overview
Korean War ● June 25, 1950 o 75,000 North Korean Troops storm across the 38th parallel ● July 1950 o America and 15 other nations contribute troops to push North Korea back
July 1950 January 1951
Korean War ● July 25, 1953 o 3 years of violence and 5 million dead o 80,000 POW’s estimated to be held still in North Korea, only 8,300 returned ● The remaining POW’s sent to work camps, and designated as members of the “hostile” class ● Demilitarized zone running just north of the 38th parallel
Famine ● Only 20% of land in North Korea arable ● 40% of children under age 5 are malnourished ● 22 million citizens rely on the gov getting food to them ● Food aid sent in by the United Nations is often confiscated by military officials and resold on the black markets ● Millions of North Koreans die in the famine at its height o Many say they had to distance themselves from the dead and dying because they were so common ● Many species and environments decimated by hunters and scavengers
Gulags ● 200 Square miles across the North Korea-China border ● Housing approximately 20,000 inmates ● Crimes o Work Gulags house POW’s from the Korean War as well as domestic “criminals” o People sent to Gulags for crimes simple as insulting the Government ● Dangerous and dirty work such as iron mining, thousands died, and are still dying in the gulags
Defectors ● Several different routes and methods were used by defectors and deserters to escape the brutal regime o Mongolia o China o DMZ o Smugglers ● Which ever route was taken the goal of all defectors was to reach South Korea ● Over the past two decades, the number of defectors to south Korea has sharply jumped
Genocide
Description ● Combines geno , from the Greek word for race or tribe, with cide , from the Latin word for killing ● "a coordinated plan of different actions aiming at the destruction of essential foundations of the life of national groups, with the aim of annihilating the groups themselves." -Ralph Lempkin ● Genocide always involves planning and is often related to political reasons
Warning Signs 1. CLASSIFICATION- Groups distinguished and separated into us and them 2. SYMBOLIZATION- Symbols given to groups to increase the distinguishing between the two factions 3. DISCRIMINATION- Laws and political power is used to deny one group of basic rights 4. DEHUMANIZATION- Groups are given comparisons to pests, and insects 5. ORGANIZATION- Army units trained and armed, plans are made to expedite killing 6. POLARIZATION- Extremists drive the two groups farther and farther apart 7. PREPARATION- Final plans made. Supplies are gathered and military units made ready 8. PERSECUTION- Victims are identified and separated. Property is taken, and some are sent to ghettos. 9. EXTERMINATION- Mass killing begins
German plans for extermination of Jews in the Holocaust
North Korea’s Genocide ● North Korea’s genocide is that of exterminating Western thinking and all its supporters ● Genocidal tactics are already being used to varying degrees around North Korea ● While North Korea has not yet reached the extermination stage, polarization has definitely been reached o Western thoughts are criminalized o Insulting the regime will result in deportation to one of the work camps in the north ● There is still time for the world to intervene and stop the genocide before it happens
Sources Beecroft, Rachel. “North Korea.” World Without Genocide , 7 May 2013. Web. 26 March 2015. Gladstone, Rick. “United Nations Urges North Korea Prosecutions.” Genocide Watch, 18 November 2014. Web. 26 March 2015 Harlan, Chico. "Some South Korean POWs Still Trapped in the North, 60 Years after Armistice." Washington Post. The Washington Post, 13 July 2013. Web. 26 Mar. 2015. “Mass - Starvations in North Korea.” North Korea Now , 17 December 2013. Web. 26 March 2015. Pearson, Michael Hanna, Jason and Park, Madison. “Abundant evidence' of crimes against humanity in North Korea, panel says.” CNN, 18 February 2014. Web. 26 March 2015. Park, Robert. "The Forgotten Genocide: North Korea's Prison State." World Affairs Journal., July-Aug. 2013. Web. 26 Mar. 2015. Park, Robert. "Time to End North Korea." The Diplomat., 2 Feb. 2012. Web. 26 Mar. 2015. Stanek, Becca. “Report Says a Genocide May Be Happening in North Korea Right Now.” Time, 19 June 2014. Web. 26 March 2015. “World Must Act on North Korea Rights Abuse.” BBC News , 18 February 2014. Web. 26 March 2015.
Recommend
More recommend
