Posted on 02/24/2003 7:04:36 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe
Watching leftwing organised demonstrators parading their moral idiocy on the television by calling President Bush an Adolf Hitler and the US a terrorist state immediately brought to mind North Korea's real live Hitler, the one whose atrocities western demonstrators and their leftwing string pullers never protest against. I mean, of course, the North's "Dear Leader" the maniacal Kim Jong-Ill who rigorously adheres to his late father's inhuman policies.
In the barren mountain regions of North Korea Pyongyang has built a network of death camps This Asian Gulag holds within its barbwire fences over 100,000 men, women and children These victims of the last true bastion of Stalinism are daily subjected to a system of degradation so vicious in character that it defies the imagination of any decent human being Their only crime (if such it can be called) was to have infringed party rules
The North's concentration camp system is rigorously controlled, coordinated and stocked by the ominously sounding Ministry of National Political Security The Ministry also acts as the communist party's main internal security agency
In 1958 Kim I1-sung launched the Intensive Guidance Project with the aim of closely examining and recording the ideological background of each of his subjects Every citizen had his personal history, network of friends and family connections subjected to the closest scrutiny Those considered as hostile elements were either tortured and then murdered or shipped to a camp.
However, Kim I1-sung became dissatisfied with the efforts of his grand inquisition To compensate for its past 'failures and to more effectively root out counter revolutionaries (alleged dissidents) he implemented in 1964 the Citizens Reregistration Project This divided the population into three classes and 51 categories; each category represents a particular type of background and behaviour.
Thus each North Korean has been classified according to party suspicions, family background, personal activities and attitude: Nothing, if possible, is left out citizens are then rewarded or punished depending on which category they have been assigned This classification system has greatly facilitated the communist regime's control over the population by providing the secret police with detailed information on ideological criminals.
The actual machinery of control is exercised through the Ministry of National Political Security which operates a massive internal spy system The ministry trains what it euphemistically calls assistant guidance workers, ie spies Each of these spies is usually assigned to five families It is his or her duty to monitor as closely as possible the behaviour of each family No action is too small to go unobserved, no comment too trivial to be ignored Every family member is under enormous psychological pressure to mind every word and every action, for the guidance worker has been taught that it is his solemn duty to "ferret out ideological enemies" whoever they are and whatever the cost.
This is +1984 with a vengeance As soon as a witch-hunting guidance worker detects a "hostile element", the unfortunate victim is hauled away by police from the Orwellian sounding Ministry of Social Safety which then determines guilt in a manner not even the Gestapo would have been allowed to use Once guilt is 'established' the victim, along with his immediate family, is shipped off in the early hours of the morning, usually between midnight and l am He is only permitted the clothes on his back: all other personal effects are forbidden — not even a toothbrush is allowed.
All of his property: furniture, cutlery, clothing, even objects of sentimental value, is confiscated by the Party for allocation among its cadres On arrival at the camp the victim is issued a pick and shovel, simple cooking utensils and a used army blanket All contact with the outside world is eliminated: he is now a non-person; no questions will be asked about him by friends or relatives.
A typical example of one of the North's concentration camps is Onsong, which is located in a remote and desolate mountain area in Hamyongpukdo province Actually the camp consists of five camps linked together by a road The camp site covers an area of about 250 square kilometres and has an estimated 25,000-30,000 prisoners The camp is enclosed by four to six parallel barbwire fences three to four metres high Minefields, electric fences and other killing devices have been added to points considered favourable to would-be escapees Seven metre watchtowers have built at intervals of two kilometres along the outer fence.
Furthermore, the camp boundary is continuously patrolled by heavily armed troops and guard dogs Nevertheless, despite the formidable security some prisoners, driven by sheer desperation, try to escape The lucky ones are killed in the attempt Captured escapees are either torured to death or killed by commandos as part of their training.
For sheer brutality the camp regime even exceeds anything that existed in Stalin's Gulag Prisoners are denied food, clothing, medical attention and even the most elementary shelter The victims are literally left to fend for themselves They are thus forced by necessity to grow, in what little spare time they are allowed, their own food, mainly maize and potatoes However, the soil is so poor that it yields little in the way of quantity and even less in quality, thereby forcing prisoners to supplement their diet with roots, grass, bark from trees and what little else they can find Not surprisingly the prisoners are quickly reduced to walking skeletons.
The situation regarding shelter is no better. Many prisoners are forced to live in holes they have dug out of the hillside The suffering these people have to endure during the harsh Korean winter is unbelievable.
They are subjected to a savage work schedule: 12 hours a day, seven days a week they are made to labour There is no day of rest for an enemy of the people They are not even allowed to talk to one another, or even move in a group unless at work or attending 're-education classes' The work consists mainly of logging, mining and land reclamation No prisoner is excused work regardless of his condition The aged and the sick are forced to work until they drop — death is their only escape.
But the greatest tragedy is the suffering of the children: Using what few tools they have, which is often only their bare hands, they are forced to labour along with their parents These children have been systematically robbed of their childhood, their future and their dignity They have been systematically degraded and dehumanised by this evil regime For them there is no playtime, no holidays, no birthdays, no presents, no future. There is no one to save them from their misery or even write their epitaph.
Once their arduous 12 hours has been worked, the children are allowed a one hour break before being herded, along with adult prisoners, into re-education classes where they sit from 8 pm to 11 pm listening to 'instructors' lecture them on the compassion and benevolence of their "Beloved and Radiant Kim Jong-il." This is the kind of garbage that would have made even Caligula blush with shame.
Nevertheless, despite camp savagery and brutal conditions, some prisoners still remain stubbornly resistant to indoctrination. (Only in the west do people willingly submit to leftwing indoctrination). The regime, however, has found a typically sadistic solution for 'problem cases': they are rounded up and transported to remote wooded areas where they are released and told to make their own way home.
In fact, they have been selected as human prey for commandos who, armed with garrotting cords, knives and clubs, then proceed to hunt and kill them The butchery continues until all the prisoners are accounted for These sadistic exercises in mass murder have not been devised to rid the regime of 'hostile elements' by providing amusement for its commissars and killing experience for its commandos. Its chief function is to dehumanise its elite units, to instil in them an utter contempt for the lives and suffering of others and to weed out, with fatal consequences, those who might retain any humanitarian sentiments.
The WWP (Workers World Party) was instrumental in organising and coordinating the so-called peace rallies. It also supports the North Korean regime and is an ardent admirer of Kim Jong-Il, who invites WWP leaders to Pyongyang for consultations. The WWP is also in bed with Saddam who accords them the same generous treatment as the North's "Dear Leader". Now you know why there are never any western demonstrators against these two psychopathic political gangsters.
When I was stationed in Greenland during the Korean War and the long winter nights,and feeling a little depressed, I'd read Solgenitzn's (sp) "Gulag Archipelligo' and "One Day in The Life of Ivan Denisovnovich" (sp), made me feel much better re/ my own situation. This North Korean regime seems worse and more sadistic than Stalin was, if that's possible.
Jim
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