{"id":7627,"date":"2018-01-10T10:13:59","date_gmt":"2018-01-10T15:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=7627"},"modified":"2018-01-10T10:13:59","modified_gmt":"2018-01-10T15:13:59","slug":"north-korea-five-gut-wrenching-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=7627","title":{"rendered":"NORTH KOREA: Five Gut-Wrenching Facts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Source: Open Doors, December 13, 2017<\/p>\n

In a new report on North Korean prison camps<\/a>, one of the judges, a former child survivor from Auschwitz, said the conditions were as bad\u2014or even worse\u2014than what he witnessed in the Nazi concentration camps.<\/p>\n

The report shared by the IBA (International Bar Association) War Committee offers chilling details from personal testimonies, video, transcripts, and scholarly works about the state of North Korea\u2019s prison camps. We share these facts to help you understand the severe mistreatment, injustice, and abuse many of our brothers and sisters in Christ are subjected to daily within North Korea\u2019s infamous prison camp system.<\/p>\n

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  1. There are an estimated 80,000-130,000 political prisoners held in North Korea\u2019s prison camps.<\/li>\n
  2. Inside the camps, prisoners are often \u201ctortured and killed on account of their religious affiliation, with officials instructed \u2018to wipe out the seed of [Christian] reactionaries.\u2019\u201d<\/li>\n
  3. In one account, guards killed a prisoner\u2019s newborn baby by feeding it to the guard dogs.<\/li>\n
  4. The report also explains the fact that routine public executions are carried out in front of both children and adults, \u201cdesigned to subdue the prison population.\u201d In another case, the prison guards executed starving prisoners \u201cfound digging for edible plants on a mountainside.\u201d<\/li>\n
  5. There were many more cases reported of inhumane treatment, deliberate starvation, cruelty, abuse, rape, forced abortions, and murder. Some of the details in the report are too graphic to share.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    As hard as it is to read\u2014or even imagine\u2014this is a reality. We can\u2019t afford to look away from this\u2014or to let our Christian family in North Korea feel isolated and alone.<\/p>\n

    \u00bb full story<\/a> inluddes links to download the report or an executive summary.<\/p>\n

    \u00bb To learn about one ministry serving North Korean defectors, see English Opens Doors for North Koreans<\/a> (One Mission Society).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Source: Open Doors, December 13, 2017 In a new report on North Korean prison camps, one of the judges, a former child survivor from Auschwitz, said the conditions were as bad\u2014or even worse\u2014than what he witnessed in the Nazi concentration camps. The report shared by the IBA (International Bar Association) War Committee offers chilling details … Continue reading NORTH KOREA: Five Gut-Wrenching Facts<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7628,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7627\/revisions\/7628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}