{"id":56487,"date":"2023-10-23T11:45:43","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T02:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=56487"},"modified":"2023-10-23T11:45:43","modified_gmt":"2023-10-23T02:45:43","slug":"children-in-n-korean-political-prison-camps-face-forced-labor-and-other-human-rights-abuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/children-in-n-korean-political-prison-camps-face-forced-labor-and-other-human-rights-abuses\/","title":{"rendered":"Children in N. Korean political prison camps face forced labor and other human rights abuses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Children imprisoned at North Korea\u2019s political prison camps face serious human rights abuses, including forced labor, beatings and other punishments, Daily NK has learned.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Speaking on condition of anonymity for security reasons, a source in North Korea familiar with the country\u2019s prison system told Daily NK on Tuesday that \u201cthe political prison camps\u2019 internal regulations set inmates to work from age 5, though actual conditions differ from camp to camp.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;They set children to work from around ages 4 to 6, when they can understand orders and signal with their bodies and hands. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Children under the age of 10 may do different work from adults, but past age 10, they do the same work as adults, though their workload differs. As no separate regulations call for children to be given safe work apart from adults, it\u2019s common for children to be tasked with work where they can get injured or killed.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to the source, the camps\u2019 regulations prescribe nine to 15 hours of work daily for inmates, while some managers force inmates to do more than 15 hours. Children are no exception.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Article 32 of the UN\u2019s Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) recognizes the right of children under 18 to be protected from economic exploitation and all forms of hazardous work.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As a UN member state and a party to the CRC, North Korea has a duty to implement this article. However, the country continues to wantonly subject children to forced labor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In particular, children in the political prison camps suffer beatings and other punishments if they fail to fulfill their workloads.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cIf they cannot fulfill their work quota, even children suffer punishments like having their food cut off, corporal punishment, additional work, confinement in a prison cell or being sent to tougher parts of the camp, just like adults,\u201d the source said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cIn the camps, making socially commonsensical and ordinary distinctions between children and adults, men and women and young and old violates the rules and is treated as a counterrevolutionary act of sympathy with forces hostile to the revolution,\u201d the source said. \u201cNo distinction between children and adults is made in the camps. Both are equally subject to beatings.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This also contradicts Article 37 of the CRC, which reads, \u201cNo child shall be subjected to torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.\u201d This means children in the political prison camps do not receive even the basic protections stipulated in international treaties.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Children in the camps reportedly receive no nutritious food, either.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cYou can\u2019t even imagine providing nutritious food to children,\u201d the source said. \u201cIf children take in sufficient nutrients, they might develop the strength to flee or embrace other ideas, so they are provided just enough food to stay alive.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cIf a camp manager mentions the nutritional intake [of prisoners, including children] or the quantity and quality of the food, they\u2019ll be sent to the stockade and branded a reactionary, regardless of who they are.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Article 24 of the CRC requires party states to take appropriate measures to eradicate childhood diseases and malnutrition by providing adequate nutritious foods and clean drinking water.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>Translated by David Black. Edited by Robert Lauler.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p><em>Daily NK works with a network of sources who live inside North Korea, China and elsewhere. Their identities remain anonymous due to security concerns. More information about Daily NK\u2019s reporting partner network and information gathering activities can be found on our FAQ page\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/faq\/\">here<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><i>Please direct any comments or questions about this article to dailynkenglish@uni-media.net.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/20231017-2\/\"><i>Read in Korean<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Children imprisoned at North Korea\u2019s political prison camps face serious human rights abuses, including forced labor, beatings and other punishments, Daily NK has learned. 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