North Korea: Human Rights Abuse
No one has the right to abuse other human rights and every citizen should be treated equally. Human rights can be defined as “one of the basic rights that everyone has to be treated fairly and not in a cruel way, especially by their government”. North Korea is one of the worst countries which is lacking behind in terms of human rights because the people of North Korea are not given their fundamental rights as it is dominant by one-man rule i.e. Kim Jong-un (King of North Korea) and the citizen's rights and moments are controlled by the hegemonic authorities of North Korea.
A nation is incomplete without the welfare of its citizens and the right form of government. In North Korea, residents lack freedom of speech, and the protestors are imprisoned and subjected to slave labor. People in North Korea are separated from the whole world because the citizens don’t have right to travel across the country. According to experts, “Estimate North Korea holds somewhere between 150,000 and 200,000 political prisoners in six large camps all over the country”. The number of prisoners may just develop as the North Korean system will additionally fix its grasp on a denied open. The internment camps comprise of jail work states in disconnected mountain valleys in focal and North-eastern North Korea. The prisoners are regularly on the very edge of starvation because of the shortage of nourishment. As anyone might expect, the blend of hard work and the absence of proper nutrition of food results in the death of prisoners. In North Korea prisoners didn’t get enough food to eat due to this prisoners are starving and they died. In 1990s, between 1 and 3 million of people lost their lives as a result of starvation. The government of North Korea has enough food in the country but they didn’t give to the prisoners.
North Korea is lacking behind a religion. According to the refugees in North Korea, there are three reasons for the lack of practice of any restricted religion. First of all, the matter is anti-religious and it is found everywhere, and best supported through the educational system, mass media, and the workplace. Secondly, it is broadly realized that there are serious punishments distributed against those found rehearsing restricted religions. Numerous interviewees affirmed that they had found out about or saw serious oppression of people discovered taking part in strict movement. Thirdly, all comprehended that adoration of the Kim family, was the official state philosophy, and the main conviction framework permitted to exist in North Korea. Moreover, according to the refugee in an interview, “There is no freedom of belief or religion. In North Korea we are educated and taught since childhood [that] you can never believe in religion”. In North Korea, if one can be involved in religion then one cannot survive in the country. After that if a citizen of North Korea doesn’t believe in Kim Jong then you are an unacceptable person and one can be sent to prison as well. Therefore, North Korea has their own rights and one has to follow their religions.
History has proved that peace and human rights have an essential place in an individual’s life, for example, peace agreements were taken into consideration between America and the Eastern alliance i.e. USSR during the era of the cold war in the 1940s for the welfare of humans existence. To maintain the balance of peace between the United Nations has played an effective role to the date. It is seen that during the era of the cold war peace agreements have signed by two alliances i.e. Eastern alliance and the Western alliance. As North Korea was part of the USSR, there were initiatives taken into consideration by both of the alliances which resulted in maintaining peace at different times by signing disarm act treaty and deactivation of nuclear weapons. It was not only beneficial for peace but the compromise and discussion became also beneficial for the alliance and its citizens. Hence, it is rightly said that human rights abuse should be strictly banned and it should be used to serve the cause of humanity.
North Korea’s government should have to respect all human rights and fundamental freedom and remove violations and close prison labor camps. Moreover, North Korea’s government also has to encourage that every citizen of the country should freely to move or leave the country.
