North Korea's ruling regime keeps more than 100,000 individuals in death camps and has carried out a series of horrific executions.
As President Donald Trump arrives in Hanoi, Vietnam, for a second summit with North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un, Human Rights Organizations are highlighting the gruesome abuses carried out by the regime in Pyongyang.
“It’s shocking that President Donald Trump either refuses to understand or doesn’t care about these rights abuses but what’s even worse is Trump’s absurd claim that Kim is somehow good for the North Korean people,” Phil Robertson, deputy Asia director for Human Rights Watch, toldKorean People's Army soldiers march during a mass rally on Kim Il Sung square in Pyongyang on September 9, 2018.
The defector turned human rights activist also corroborated reports of the death of O Sang Hon, North Korea’s deputy public security minister, who was executed with a flamethrower. “Kim Jong Un personally hated him, so he personally ordered him to be executed by a flamethrower,” Kang explained, adding that the man’s lifeless body had also been pulverized under a tank.
In 2017, the Washington, D.C.–based Committee for Human Rights in North Korea released satellite images showing the extensive network of prison camps including re-education camps inside the hermit nation. The camps, run by North Korea’s Ministry of Public Security, were found throughout the country on the outskirts of its cities and in huge compounds in the mountains.reported prisoners in the camps were forced to do hard labor in near-starvation conditions.