Recent Pictures of How Bad Living in North Korea is Today. Amazing Pics and comments.

wow. thanks for that. very interesting to see those pics. NK is such a shut of world... never get to peek inside.

never seen pics of North Korea. Looks like something out of a bad movie.

Sure as hell wouldnt want to live there. I just hope bush dont want to try to start another war over there. If that happens alot of americans are prabably not going to come back home from over there. Not to mention a draft would be very likely.

nah, you've got it all wrong! America is bad, North Korea is good. silly kids

You should see Nogales, Messico if you think that's bad.

Interesting! Thanks

Really? Are horrific chemical experiments being conducted on human beings?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/korea/arti...136483,00.html

Revealed: the gas chamber horror of North Korea's gulag

A series of shocking personal testimonies is now shedding light on Camp 22 - one of the country's most horrific secrets

Antony Barnett
Sunday February 1, 2004
The Observer

In the remote north-eastern corner of North Korea, close to the border of Russia and China, is Haengyong. Hidden away in the mountains, this remote town is home to Camp 22 - North Korea's largest concentration camp, where thousands of men, women and children accused of political crimes are held.

Now, it is claimed, it is also where thousands die each year and where prison guards stamp on the necks of babies born to prisoners to kill them.

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Over the past year harrowing first-hand testimonies from North Korean defectors have detailed execution and torture, and now chilling evidence has emerged that the walls of Camp 22 hide an even more evil secret: gas chambers where horrific chemical experiments are conducted on human beings.

Witnesses have described watching entire families being put in glass chambers and gassed. They are left to an agonising death while scientists take notes. The allegations offer the most shocking glimpse so far of Kim Jong-il's North Korean regime.

Kwon Hyuk, who has changed his name, was the former military attaché at the North Korean Embassy in Beijing. He was also the chief of management at Camp 22. In the BBC's This World documentary, to be broadcast tonight, Hyuk claims he now wants the world to know what is happening.

'I witnessed a whole family being tested on suffocating gas and dying in the gas chamber,' he said. 'The parents, son and and a daughter. The parents were vomiting and dying, but till the very last moment they tried to save kids by doing mouth-to-mouth breathing.'

Hyuk has drawn detailed diagrams of the gas chamber he saw. He said: 'The glass chamber is sealed airtight. It is 3.5 metres wide, 3m long and 2.2m high_ [There] is the injection tube going through the unit. Normally, a family sticks together and individual prisoners stand separately around the corners. Scientists observe the entire process from above, through the glass.'

He explains how he had believed this treatment was justified. 'At the time I felt that they thoroughly deserved such a death. Because all of us were led to believe that all the bad things that were happening to North Korea were their fault; that we were poor, divided and not making progress as a country.

'It would be a total lie for me to say I feel sympathetic about the children dying such a painful death. Under the society and the regime I was in at the time, I only felt that they were the enemies. So I felt no sympathy or pity for them at all.'

His testimony is backed up by Soon Ok-lee, who was imprisoned for seven years. 'An officer ordered me to select 50 healthy female prisoners,' she said. 'One of the guards handed me a basket full of soaked cabbage, told me not to eat it but to give it to the 50 women. I gave them out and heard a scream from those who had eaten them. They were all screaming and vomiting blood. All who ate the cabbage leaves started violently vomiting blood and screaming with pain. It was hell. In less than 20 minutes they were quite dead.'

Defectors have smuggled out documents that appear to reveal how methodical the chemical experiments were. One stamped 'top secret' and 'transfer letter' is dated February 2002. The name of the victim was Lin Hun-hwa. He was 39. The text reads: 'The above person is transferred from ... camp number 22 for the purpose of human experimentation of liquid gas for chemical weapons.'

Kim Sang-hun, a North Korean human rights worker, says the document is genuine. He said: 'It carries a North Korean format, the quality of paper is North Korean and it has an official stamp of agencies involved with this human experimentation. A stamp they cannot deny. And it carries names of the victim and where and why and how these people were experimented [on].'

The number of prisoners held in the North Korean gulag is not known: one estimate is 200,000, held in 12 or more centres. Camp 22 is thought to hold 50,000.

Most are imprisoned because their relatives are believed to be critical of the regime. Many are Christians, a religion believed by Kim Jong-il to be one of the greatest threats to his power. According to the dictator, not only is a suspected dissident arrested but also three generations of his family are imprisoned, to root out the bad blood and seed of dissent.

With North Korea trying to win concessions in return for axing its nuclear programme, campaigners want human rights to be a part of any deal. Richard Spring, Tory foreign affairs spokesman, is pushing for a House of Commons debate on human rights in North Korea.

'The situation is absolutely horrific,' Spring said. 'It is totally unacceptable by any norms of civilised society. It makes it even more urgent to convince the North Koreans that procuring weapons of mass destruction must end, not only for the security of the region but for the good of their own population.'

Mervyn Thomas, chief executive of Christian Solidarity Worldwide, said: 'For too long the horrendous suffering of the people of North Korea, especially those imprisoned in unspeakably barbaric prison camps, has been met with silence ... It is imperative that the international community does not continue to turn a blind eye to these atrocities which should weigh heavily on the world's conscience.'

The whole country is just gray everywhere you look. Every building is gray. Even the sky is gray. Geez, the entire country is one big prison! Worst place in the world to live.

With a military budget of $5.2 billion, no wonder the people are the one's suffering.

Cool pics thanks for sharing.

Yea ...just ask directfiesta, webby and a host of others. It a socialist paradise....

great pictures

thanks for sharing!

lol hm messico is bad, but I don't think it's conducting chemical experiments on it's people...

Everyone Ignore North Korea. There is nothing to see here. No human rights violations. No nuclear weapons. Please return your attentions to Iraq. They are the real threat. That is all!

well that fucked up my day. i never knew north korea was like that.

what does this has to do with launch?

I never said this was a live webcast of the launch site..

It's about pictures taken in NK. If you're not interested

amazing pictures... looks scary

man I quit earth...

The rural pictures look fascinating.

So what will shooting off a missile or rocket prove??

Look at these snaps from a different trip, different person... It's grey.
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=200578

WTF? How can that be scary!, come on!... the pictures are stunning !

How much would one of those tours cost? I know it's grey, but it'd be a real interesting place to visit I think.

Great looking pics..looks beautiful there but would never want to live there

China isnt that better...

Fucking communism, man! Scary.

In what way?

Yes, China has a very strict government. BUT, China's economy is very strong. DPRK, on the other hand, needs a lot of international assistance to feed their own people (non-military, of course since all of their 'goods' go into strengthening their army).

those pictures are beyond depressing

Good shit.

Im suprised he got in and got those pictures.

Interesting pictures and comments, thanks for sharing.

They allow press into the country but are always guided. The scariest part of it is that the pictures that they DO allow you to take are of the "better" parts of North Korea. North Korea always tries to put themselves in light and above all others.

I visited South Korea about 10 years ago and visited the Northeastern corner of South Korea. The DMZ there is a tourist attraction along the beach. Very heavily guarded and alot of South Korean military presence there. They have binoculars you can use to look over the DMZ into North Korea. There was a fake 'village' type of area there... completely abandoned; reminded me of like a westerns-type movie set. Next to this fake village, there was in big letters "Land of No Tax" along the ground (like the Hollywood sign). Then there were a small chain of mountains and these mountains hid the main part of North Korea from view. Wish I could have taken pictures of that.

i dont know whats so shocking, those pics look like almost every other asian country i've seen.... ions ahead of some....

interesting

that you succeeded in makeing those pics!