Access To Media: Cultural Factors

9 Oct

Watching multiple documentaries of people who have escaped these camps, you begin to understand why they escaped and how little they knew of what a real life was in North Korea. It is astonishing to know that these “concentration camps” still exist in North Korea after what happened with the Holocaust. According to camp survivors prisoners in these camps are forced to do hard labor while surviving on a starvation diet of corn, cabbage, and salt. As they age over the countless hours of labor they put forth a day, their bones begin to weaken and they hunch over as the waist. Most of these prisoners die of hunger-related illness before turning 50. This is a part of a documentary film of how Shin Dong-Hyuk escaped from Camp 14 in 2005 and told his story to the United States to get the word out there that these camps still do exist and not to ignore them.

From my other blog post: Access to Media: North Korea in The Dark, it is evident that the citizens of North Korea who are not imprisoned are very censored from the Internet. With these YouTube videos, you can see that North Korea is putting a whole new kind of censorship through their concentration camps. Knowing that North Korea is almost completely censored by the state and having “concentration camps” throughout their country; why are no other countries trying to help these citizens?

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