As portrayed in the movie The Interview, North Korea seems like a horrible place full of fake grocery stores and a cruel leader. In reality, North Korea’s situation is much worse. The average North Korean goes through many obstacles every day and has limited access to resources that citizens of other countries would have an abundant amount of access to. Through the continued abuse of human rights, no outside countries seem to believe that they should interfere with how North Korea treats its people. Though all countries have a right to their own choices, it does seem that leaving North Koreans trapped and helpless inside their country makes other countries just as cruel as North Korea.
Known as the World’s Worst Border, the Korean Demilitarized …show more content…
In this camp, Camp 22, there are a total of 50,000 prisoners and the camp has an area of about 500 square miles—the size of Los Angeles.Out of the 50,000 prisoners, it is recorded that 2,000 of them have missing limbs. In addition, 2,000 people die every year from malnutrition in this camp, and the great majority of these people are children. Children are known to live short lives in Camp 22. Compared to the women in the camps, the children might be considered lucky. Women in Camp 22 are raped very often. Every time this happens, the guard responsible for raping the women blames the women for what happened. Usually, the women are sent away to a different area of a camp for a year and them they come back to their original positions. After coming back, the women were described as having burn marks all over their body, and one woman came back missing both of her legs. Sadly, none of this information has come from prisoners who’ve escaped Camp 22, but from guards who realized what they were doing and fled the …show more content…
Everyday, North Korean citizens have their human rights abused by the government. People are treated unfairly and no other countries are doing anything about it. Though this seems cruel for the other countries to not intervene, they shouldn’t because of all the negative effects it can have on North Koreans and Americans. When actually thought about, it seems rude for other countries to not fight North Korea; however, it is the responsibility of individual countries to take care of their citizens before trying to fix other nations
Known as the World’s Worst Border, the Korean Demilitarized …show more content…
In this camp, Camp 22, there are a total of 50,000 prisoners and the camp has an area of about 500 square miles—the size of Los Angeles.Out of the 50,000 prisoners, it is recorded that 2,000 of them have missing limbs. In addition, 2,000 people die every year from malnutrition in this camp, and the great majority of these people are children. Children are known to live short lives in Camp 22. Compared to the women in the camps, the children might be considered lucky. Women in Camp 22 are raped very often. Every time this happens, the guard responsible for raping the women blames the women for what happened. Usually, the women are sent away to a different area of a camp for a year and them they come back to their original positions. After coming back, the women were described as having burn marks all over their body, and one woman came back missing both of her legs. Sadly, none of this information has come from prisoners who’ve escaped Camp 22, but from guards who realized what they were doing and fled the …show more content…
Everyday, North Korean citizens have their human rights abused by the government. People are treated unfairly and no other countries are doing anything about it. Though this seems cruel for the other countries to not intervene, they shouldn’t because of all the negative effects it can have on North Koreans and Americans. When actually thought about, it seems rude for other countries to not fight North Korea; however, it is the responsibility of individual countries to take care of their citizens before trying to fix other nations