Sunday, March 3, 2013

Dear Dennis: There are No Kim Fans in NK's "Camp 22"

Pace the comments of Kim-besotted hoopster Dennis Rodman, there are some North Koreans who are less than enthusiastic about their pudgy autocrat, the third Kim in a row they've had to endure. Folks in the NK "gulag," for instance:
Also known as Hoeryong concentration camp, and part of a large system of prison camps throughout the communist dictatorship, Camp 22 is an 87-square-mile penal colony located in the North Hamgyong province colony where most of the prisoners are people accused of criticizing the government. 
Inmates, most of whom are serving life sentences, face harsh and often lethal conditions.  
According to the testimony of a former guard from Camp22, prisoners live in bunk houses with 100 people per room and some 30 percent bear the markings of torture and beatings -- torn ears, gouged eyes and faces covered with scars. 
Prisoners are forced to stand on their toes in tanks filled with water up to their noses for 24 hours, stripped and hanged upside-down while being beaten or given the infamous "pigeon torture” -- where both hands are chained to a wall at a height of 2 feet, forcing them to crouch for hours at a time. 
Tiny rations of watery corn porridge leave inmates on the brink of starvation, and many hunt rats, snakes and frogs for protein. Some even take the drastic measure of searching through animal dung for undigested seeds to eat. Beatings are handed out daily for offenses as simple as not bowing down in respect to the guards fast enough. Prisoners are used as practice targets during martial arts training. Guards routinely rape female inmates... 
Couldn't we send Dennis there, at least for a little while? Snakes and frogs for protein sound right up his alley.

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