Horror in North Korea

From Robert Koehler in South Korea comes this story.

Defectors Tell of Cannibalism, Torture, Lost Families
WARSAW -- The "5th International Conference on North Korean Human Rights & Refugees," held from Feb. 29 to March 2 in Warsaw, Poland, has drawn the attention of international media.

Within Europe, interest in the North Korea problem has increased remarkably, probably as a result of a BBC documentary on suspicions that North Korea has been testing chemical weapons on political prisoners. Recently, footage from Japan's Fuji TV depicting conditions in the North's Yodeok Prison Camp has been telecast in Poland, and Polish media has paid a lot of attention to the Warsaw conference.

At this conference, five defectors discussed their tragic conditions in which family members have been lost or scattered about.

Read the experiences of the defectors. They are only snapshots of the inhumanity that currently exists in North Korea, but they add to the already large and growing body of evidence against the criminal communist regime of Kim Jong-il.

Americans need to be aware of the threat that North Korea represents to peace and stability in the Far East. Like it or not, the United States is involved. And, in some very real ways, history is being repeated. In the words of National Remembrance Institute president Leon Kieres:

"Even though I've never been to the Far East, when I look at the situation as a Pole, a people who have experienced things like the Nazi Holocaust, there are clearly things in common between the North Korean prison camps and those of the Nazis and Soviets."

Read the article and the commentary at the Marmot's Hole.