Amnesty Releases Report of North Korea Killing 30 Officials
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North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un regime has killed 30 North Korean officials as punishment for poor North-South Korea relations. (KCNA VIA KNS/AFP/GettyImages |
[www.ntdtv.com 2012-05-28 15:41]
A new report from rights group Amnesty International says 30 North Korean officials have been killed as punishment for poor North-South Korea relations by the Kim Jong-un regime. Kim Jong-un took power after his father, long time regime leader Kim Jong-il, passed away last December.
Amnesty International has released an annual report that describes North Korea’s current human rights situation. In the report it says “30 officials who had participated in inter-Korean talks”… had been executed or killed in “staged traffic accidents.”
Officials’ families may not be immune to punishment. A North Korean Defector who escaped a labor camp, and made it to South Korea, says family members for three generations are often implicated in “misdemeanors.”
[Chunseong Kim, North Korean Defector]:
“Kim Jong-un, North Korea’s leader, is not only killing defectors, but all of their family members, for three generations.”
The 2012 report is also damning for China’s role in repatriating North Koreans who are fleeing the country. “Thousands of North Koreans who fled to China in search of food and employment were often forcibly repatriated to North Korea by the Chinese authorities. They were routinely beaten and detained upon return.”
Chunseong Kim escaped that fate and condemns the cruel practice.
[Chunseong Kim, North Korean Defector]:
“The Chinese regime’s behavior is like someone pushing a young child into a lion’s cave.”