Our World - Korea Out of the North - documentary (2008)

BBC documentary

The North Korean human rights crisis (2007)

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Abstract

North Korea today is home to a network of several dozen concentration camps rivaling those ... Alle » of Auschwitz and Dachau of days past, hosting over 250,000 political prisoners and their families. North Korea is a prison state- there are no freedoms of religion, speech, movement, assembly- even the right to leave the nation is barred from the people. Hundreds of thousands of North Koreans have fled to neighboring China, only to be hunted down by Chinese authorities and sent back to North Korea to face torture and death; or to be sold by brokers and smugglers as labor or sexual slaves. An additional 15,000 North Koreans toil in slave labor camps outside North Korea- in nations like Russia, Mongolia, Poland and several Middle Eastern and Southeast Asian nations. In a country of 23 million people oppressed and suffering, malnutrition and starvation are at epidemic rates, and people have been largely forgotten amidst talk of nuclear weapons and political posturing. Adrian Hong, Executive Director of Liberty in North Korea (or LiNK), will give a broad overview of the tremendous human rights crisis in North Korea today, and share about worldwide efforts to help these forgotten people. This is not a crisis instigated by natural disaster, civil war, or warring factions in a failed state. This is institutionalized human rights abuse on a massive scale, at it's worst. Why has the world failed them? Does knowledge bring about responsibility? Come and learn about the problem and what you can do to save these lives.

Adrian Hong was recently arrested by Chinese authorities and jailed in 2006 for his work in helping North Korean refugees escape to freedom.

North Korean - Hana's Story - documentary (2009)

An insight into the life of 19-year old Hana, one of a growing number of defectors from North Korea struggling to adjust to life in the South.


"Witness" documentary

Born and raised in a concentration camp in North Korea

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ABSTRACT

Google will be hosting Dong Hyuk Shin, a 26-year-old North Korean defector born and raised in a concentration camp. Shin was born on Nov. 19, 1982 and called the camp home until 2005. While at the camp, he endured daily beatings, torture, starvation-level rations, saw forced abortions and even witnessed the public execution of his mother and brother in 1996. Shin described his life of total isolation from the world: "In South Korea, although there is disappointment and sadness, there is also so much joy, happiness and comfort. In Kaechon, I did not even know such emotions existed. The only emotion I ever knew was fear: fear of beatings, fear of starvation, fear of torture and fear of death." LiNK's Executive Director Adrian Hong will brief the audience on the broader issue of human rights in North Korea, as well as the current refugee situation and what can be done to help. Liberty in North Korea, or LiNK, is an international non-governmental organization devoted to human rights in North Korea and the protection of North Korean refugees.

This talk will be taped.

Speaker: Adrian Hong
Adrian Hong: Adrian Hong currently serves as Executive Director of Liberty in North Korea, or LiNK, an international NGO devoted to human rights in North Korea, and the protection of North Korean refugees all over the world. In December of 2006, Mr. Hong was arrested along with 2 LiNK field workers and 6 North Korean refugees in the People's Republic of China and imprisoned before being released and deported

Speaker: Dong-hyuk SHIN
Dong-hyuk SHIN: Mr. Shin was born and raised in Political Prison Camp No. 14 until his escape in 2005. Based in South Korea, he has testified before Britain's House of Lords, and published a book in 2007 entitled "I Was a Political Prisoner at Birth in North Korea" published by the DataBase Center for North Korean Human Rights. Mr. Shin aspires to attend college and hopes to become a policeman.

The escape from North Korea - report

The Great Escape North Korea / China from Sam Farmar on Vimeo.


Unreported World travels to China’s remote border with North Korea, where few journalists have ever set foot. Reporter Oliver Steeds and director Sam Farmar report on the plight of thousands of North Korean women who have been forced into prostitution or sold as brides after fleeing persecution and starvation in one of the world’s most secretive and repressive regimes.
It's an report that makes you think about the current situation in North Korea. It's strengthens need of support for the people in North Korea to escape torture, imprisonment in concentration camps.


more documentaries and reports about North Korea

North Korean Defectors - Movie: Crossing

Crossing is a Korean movie. The movie is based on a real story about the life of a North Korean defector and his family.

Actor Cha In-pyo starred as a North Korean coal miner who crossed illegally into China to get medicine for his wife. His wife passed away soon after he crossed the border, and he was separated from his 11-year-old son (played by Shin Myung-chul) who was trying to trace him from North Korea.

The story shares the hardship of North Korean refugees in the late 1990s, with famine striking the country and killed an estimated 1 million people.
The North Koreans could not cross into South Korea directly because of landmines and heavy military presence at the border these defectors had to cross into China and made a de-tour to South Korea instead.
The Chinese government, an ally of the North Korean regime, does not recognize the defectors as refugees and would send them back to North Korea to face stiff action.

Escaping North Korea - documentary

North Koreans are on the run. Most are women and children. Many are caught and sent back to famine and brutality in the world's last closed communist state. Families are torn apart children left behind as their mothers risk everything in their bid for freedom.
This documentary shows a rare footage of escapes as they happen.



Escaping North Korea - BBC documentary with English Subtitles