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The Korean War, 1950-53 claimed between 2.5 and 3.5 million lives,
including 1,000 British servicemen
Korea Divided
The 1953 ceasefire led to the country being severed at the 38th parallel
Isolation
Kim Il Sung and Juche
British Parliament 2008: Human Rights Activists – Run of Your Life reaches London
Lee Young-Kuk’s Evidence
"From the very first day, the guards with their rifles
beat me. I was trampled on mercilessly until my legs
became swollen, my eardrums were shattered, and
my teeth were all broken. They wouldn't allow us to
sleep from 4 am till 10 pm and once while I was
sleeping, they poured water over my head. Since the
conditions within the prison were poor, my head
became frostbitten from the bitter cold.
Shin Dong-Hyok --: on April 6th 1996, he was forced to watch as his mother
and brother were publicly executed
Ahn Myeong-Cheol meets David
Cameron
Ahn Myeong-Cheol,
Former North Korean
Prison guard, meets
Rt.Hon.David Cameron MP,
then Leader of the
Official Opposition, at the
House of Commons.
U.N. Special Rapporteur Speaks
Out
YOU TUBE..
http://www.youtube
.com/watch?
Mike Kim: “Escaping North Korea”
v=QQ4UvFW7UqI
“Duty To Protect” is “Failure To
Protect”
Failure To Protect: Report by Vaclav Havel, Elie Wiesel and Kjell Magne Bondevik
U.N. Urged To Uphold its doctrine
of “the duty to protect”
2006: the
General
Assembly
of the United
Nations passed
a motion
detailing North
Korea’s
use of torture,
public
executions
and degrading
treatments.
“Nothing To Envy” by Barbara Demick: 2010
Increased use of the death
sentence
• 52 executions since
the failed currency
reforms of December
2009, including the
Minister of Railways
Kim Yong-sam and
Vice Minister So
Nam-sin
St.Andrew Kim – the first Korean priest to be martyred. Around 10,000
Catholics died for their faith in Korea – and continue to do so: “The
Korean Martyrs” by Msgr.Richard Rutt.
North Korea 2010
At Anju – 80 kilometres north of Pyongyang
- believers have met in the rubble of their
church for 50 years
The meagre daily food target: 600 grams of rice per person
Poverty Related Diseases Increase
By the 1950s 2.5 million people were in Stalin’s Soviet Marxist Historian, Eric Hobsbawm
gulags – in 1953 there were 460,000 political prisoners.
Extraordinary Suffering In The
Soviet Gulags
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Andrei Sakharov
The Siberian Seven
Remained In The US
Embassy In Moscow
From 1978-83.
Jewish Refuseniks
Maria and Ivan Hel and Bishop Pavlo Vasylyk, in the Ukraine. Hel spent 17 years,
Vasylyk 18 years in prison at Prem – the Soviet “camp of death.” The Greek
Catholic Church was banned and went underground for 43 years..
Romania
Pastor Laszlo Tokes became the inspiration for the Romanian revolution
Poland
Expressing Solidarity
http://www.jubileecampaign.org/BuildBridgesNotWalls.pdf
Ignoring North Korea Is Not An
Option