[imText1]A report has been published which depicts the systematized methods in how North Korean officials torture defectors. <\/p>\n
The Citizens\u2019 Alliance for North Korean Human Rights (representative, Benjamin Yoon) conducted an in-depth investigation with 20 defectors (9 male, 11 female) over a period of 7 months on differing torture methods by North Korea\u2019s national bureau, such as the National Security Agency and the People\u2019s Protection Agency. The report, titled \u201cNorth Korea: Republic of Torture\u201d was published on the 13th.<\/p>\n
This report claimed that North Korean authorities enforced standardized torture such as beatings, assault and confinement in order to get the prisoners to confess and raised the concern that these tortures were only worsening. <\/p>\n
Furthermore, rations are not distributed in the prisons and so prisoners inevitably meet their death tortured in a malnourished state.<\/p>\n
If a prisoner dies during torture, investigations on the cause of death are not made and officials create a fallacy that the prisoner committed suicide because of guilt, claimed the report. <\/p>\n
The report stated \u201cEven if a person dies of torture and the deceased body is returned to the family, the cause of death is stated \u2018It is reasonable that death was received as the penalty for a person who committed a crime and was unable to wash away from his\/her sins\u2019\u201d and revealed that \u201cA tag then identifies the family as a family with a criminal.\u201d<\/p>\n
Additionally, the report highlighted the fact that prisoners were experiencing extreme torture. Particularly, without even the bare minimum of food, detainees are sent to the \u201cbasement\u201d where their arms and legs are twisted behind their backs. The person is then positioned to hang in mid-air for long hours; this known as the notorious \u201cpigeon torture.\u201d <\/p>\n
\u201cSince the late 90\u2019s, the succession of defectors rose dramatically and in order to combat this, North Korean authorities began campaigning control and severe punishment\u201d said the report and explained, \u201cThese claims have been based on a long-term investigation made by the National Saftey Agency in Musan in 1999 on custodial facilities.\u201d<\/p>\n
The report continued, \u201cSince 2000, women have been subject to inhumane exploitation on a daily basis\u2026 Female detainees are stripped of their clothing and made to sit then stand repeatedly in their naked state.\u201d Making the woman repeatedly sit and stand naked, comes from the idea of shaking the money collected in China to fall from one’s body and is a form of basic torture taking a trend to other regions.<\/p>\n
In particular, \u201cNorth Korea\u2019s National Safety Agency and China\u2019s Public Security united in a secret pact in 1998~1999 to repatriate defectors back to North Korea\u201d the report claimed and asserted, \u201cChina is also participating in human rights violations against North Korean citizens.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Citizens\u2019 Alliance for North Korean Human Rights is urging for the Korean government and international community to intervene and end the repatriation of North Korean defectors in China. The Citizens\u2019 Alliance for North Korean Human Rights will also issue the report in English, and at the end of this month present it to Vitit Muntarbhorn, the U.N.\u2019s special rapporteur on human rights in the North Korea, hoping to raise the chance of discussing the issue of torture.<\/p>\n
The 20 participants of the investigation have come from a range of provinces such as Onsung, Hoiryeong, Musan, Kyunsung, Chongjin, Hamju in South Hamkyung, Shinuiju in North Pyongan and Pyongyang. The participants had all experienced different types of torture during the period 1993~2005 in 8 different types of environments including gulags, education centers, concentration camps, labor camps and street kids camps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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