Filed under: North Korea | Tags: Concentration Camp, death, euna lee, Hitler, journalists, Kim Jong Il, labor camp, laura ling, North Korea, prison, torture, trial
Yesterday the North Korean government sentenced Laura Ling and Euna Lee to 12 years in a hard labor camp. If this sentence is carried out to its full extent…this means a really bad future for these two girls. Keep them in your prayers. These labor camps, as told in “Eyes of the Tailless Animals” are some of the worst places on earth. Torture, lack of food, lack of medicine, and many accounts of mistreatment and death are just some of the things that happen at these “camps”. They have been likened, and in some cases seen as worse, than Hitler’s concentration camps.
Read the LA Times article here
Keep these two girls in your prayers. Euna is a mother of a 4 year old, and both girls have families back home in America.
Filed under: North Korea | Tags: book, China, christianity, christians, Concentration Camp, Europe, Eyes of the Tailless Animals, guards, Hitler, human rights, North Korea, prison, Soon Ok Lee, torture
“When the soldiers shot prisoners during public executions…some of the female prisoners lost their minds and became psychotic. They cried, laughed, sang, or fainted. Their reaction was considered as disagreement with the Party or a lack of a firm belief in Communism…After public executions, all twenty solitary confinement cells were full of prisoners who reacted to the horror.”
We’re in the middle of reading this book. It’s called “Eyes of the tailless animals.” It is the memoirs of a North Korean woman who was in a prison camp. It is really graphic and disturbing, but it’s amazing that this is still happening today. You only hear about these kinds of things happening in concentration camps during Hitler’s reign. But what is happening in North Korea seems even worse at times. After visiting concentration camps in Europe as a kid, it is easier to relate to what is going on in the book. I would really suggest reading the book if you are interested. You can buy it on amazon. I’ll post a link at the bottom of this.
I was in China a couple of years ago listening to a North Korean woman talk about what they did to people in North Korea. She was saying that the guards would take Christians to steel factories and actually throw them into the molten slag (combination of impurities leftover from the making of steel or iron). I couldn’t believe it. I don’t know what could possibly make another person do that to another person.
Sorry, kind of a depressing post. Despite all of these things though, the church continues to grow in North Korea!
