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North Korea - Human rights | | North Korea - Human rights: Encyclopedia II - North Korea - Human rights | | Amnesty International and other human rights organizations accuse North Korea of having one of the worst human rights records of any nation, severely restricting most freedoms, including freedom of speech and freedom of movement, both inside the country and abroad.
Refugees have testified the existence of detention or concentration camps with estimated 150,000 to 200,000 inmates, and reported torture, starvation and slave labor [4]. Japanese television aired what it said was footage of a prison camp [5]. In some of the camps, former i ...
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| | | North Korea: Encyclopedia II - North Korea - Human rights
North Korea - Human rights
Main article: Human rights in North Korea
Amnesty International and other human rights organizations accuse North Korea of having one of the worst human rights records of any nation, severely restricting most freedoms, including freedom of speech and freedom of movement, both inside the country and abroad.
Refugees have testified the existence of detention or concentration camps with estimated 150,000 to 200,000 inmates, and reported torture, starvation and slave labor [4]. Japanese television aired what it said was footage of a prison camp [5]. In some of the camps, former inmates say the annual mortality rate approaches 25% [6]. A former prison guard and army intelligence officer once said that in one camp, chemical weapons were tested on prisoners in a gas chamber [7]. According to a former prisoner, pregnant women inside the camps have either forced abortions or the newborn child is killed [8]. None of these claims can be verified, as North Korea denies them and does not grant entry to independent human rights observers.
Less often discussed are the human rights implications of North Korea's famine, which killed between 600,000 and 3.5 million people , mostly during the 1990s [9][10] [11]. By 1999, food and development aid reduced famine deaths, but North Korea's continuing nuclear program led to a decline in foreign aid. In the spring of 2005, the World Food Program reported that famine conditions were in imminent danger of returning to North Korea , and the government was reported to have mobilized millions of city-dwellers to help rice farmers [12][13]. However, the 2005 cereal harvest has said to have reached 4.6 million tonnes (a 10% increase in comparison with 2004), that is to say the best harvest for the past ten years.
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