And I don’t know what to do about it.
Not to sound insensitive but right now there are children dying all over the world from various injustices why should this instance be any different.
I am sure that there is some group that is going to be raising money to help, and if not you can start one.
Have you tried not picking at it?
- Sneak into North Korea.
- Find out where Kim Jong-Il lives.
- Sneak in there.
- Piss in Kim-Jong Ill’s Cheerios.
- Escape.
Nuke them!
(in the name of freedom)
- […]
- Profit!
Send them the instructional videos, made American-style:
the entire run of Hogan’s Heroes.
…from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.
Seriously, though, I’m sure that there are probably some human rights organizations that are aware of this and are trying to get them out of prison. I’m not sure if this would come under the watch of Amnesty International, but it might not be a bad place to start.
Have you tried writing Kim-Jong Ill a letter? Sometimes people do things and they don’t really understand how they are hurting other people.
And he’d probably appreciate the letter. I’ve heard he’s very lonely.
I didn’t hear that, I heard he was lonry…
And I heard he was loony.
Man, I hate that “pass it on” game.
There isn’t much you can do about it.
http://www.hrnk.org/donate.html
You can donate to help refugees escape North Korea or China, or to airlift radios into North Korea so the people have another source of news aside from censored North Korean broadcasts. But aside from that, I don’t know what you can do. Sorry.
Maybe if you weren’t so sleepy, you could think of something.
Hey, it worked on Fidel Castro in that South Park episode.
Thank you, Wesley Clark
Most of the rest of you - well never mind. Correct forum and all.
The reason this hit me the way it did is seeing “I am David” within a few days of seeing a documentary on North Korea, part of which was on the family detention camps.
I know children are dying all over the world. Most of them of hunger, or because of conflict. Some of the charities I give to address that: the Red Cross helps displaced persons, Share our Strength helps fight hunger, Grameen Foundation helps change futures by extending micro credit. None of them solve it, at least at this point, but at least address it. The N-K situation is different, I didn’t know of anything that is actually trying to affect change there. And it really bothered me.
Ok, the “Hogans Heroes” thing was funny. Damnit.
… African/American - Hispanic/Americans are the primary third-world countries needing help with adoptions???
There are groups who want to airlift cheap radios into North Korea by tying them to balloons and letting them land in NK. In NK you can’t buy a radio or TV unless it is from the government and government radios/tvs are designed to only pick up state radio channels. Some defectors have said that if North Koreans knew what the outside world was like (The average North Korean has no idea what the North Korean gov. is really like, how the officials really act or what the outside world is like) they would help bring the regime down. Then again, maybe it’d just lead to a massive crackdown.
I don’t like it but I try to look on the bright side. Human rights are growing at a clip on earth. True, North Korea is a hellhole, but just 60 years ago the level of abuses practiced by the NK regime were considered normal for places like Japan, China, the USSR & Germany. These were all world powers and still are but now 2 are liberal democracies and the other 2 are making improvements. Hell, 60 years ago Germany & Japan were gross human rights abusers, now Japan is trying to add human rights into their dealings in the 6 party talks with NK. The EU which contains countries like Spain, Germany & Italy (once gross human rights abusers) is making human rights a part of their dialogue(s) with NK regime as well. If you read the book Under the loving care of the fatherly leader the NK regime is desperately poor so strategic aid (food, fuel, economic, etc) given on human rights conditions may be able to force human rights. The point is in the last 60 years we’ve advanced enough that abuses that was once almost normal of powerful developed countries is now only practiced by small, isolated poor countries like Myanmar or North Korea. In 50 years North Korea could look like the Japan or Germany of 2005 in regards to their human rights practices and those kids in the camps today will live to see it, maybe in 2050 the North Korea government will be totally reformed and will be the one pushing for human rights the same way the Japanese & German governments are the ones pushing for human rights in 2005. Or they could be like China or Russia, not liberal democracies but massively improved. At the end of the day, the NK regime can’t last forever as it is so artificial and inept and its only a matter of time before improvements happen.
I have to say that this is probably the one thing that makes me the most ashamed to be human.
The fact that someone can defy unthinkable odds to even be born into a world filled with a billion wonders and then live out their entire lives in a prison camp without seeing any of them, suffering daily torment and all because their parents (or even grandparents) committed some petty transgression against a petty tin pot third rate regime that most of the rest of the population of the world wouldn’t even be able to find on a map strikes me as tragic on scale that I can’t even begin to wrap my mind around.