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Research Paper On North Korea Human Rights

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North Korea and Its’ human rights

Should North Korea’s military be allowed to deprive its’ citizens of human rights? North Korea should not be allowed to deprive its’ citizens of human rights. For example, North Korea has punished its citizens for things such as dropping a sewing machine and then they cut off a finger from the person that dropped it. North Korea also punishes people for hoarding food. They also encourage any citizen including family member to report if they see someone break a law they will organize a shooting squad on sight. There should be no excuse that any human should not have any rights, but North Korea has put all of its money into military purposes and hasn’t used any of its’ money on its’ citizens, as well as …show more content…

North Koreans who are wealthy like Kim Jong Un or others that are on the higher class can only afford to get food. The rest of the citizens or the lower classes barely scrape by as they look for food to eat. For example, “in April 2012, the Tokyo Shimbun newspaper reported that ‘from December 2011 until April 2012, twenty thousand people have starved to death in South Hwanghae Province,’ which is about ten percent of the area's population” (Park 2). Some places in North Korea don't have grass growing because people have eaten grass in order to survive. A human right is the right to food and shelter, but in North Korea people are not given this human right. In the future, perhaps North Koreans will have the right to food and …show more content…

Once they agree to let nations help them, their citizens won't have to live in fear of their own nation. A human right that pertains to this is that all of us as humans have the right to life to live in freedom and safety. They can perhaps have food in their houses and not have to worry about being punished for hoarding food. If they are charged with a crime, they should have a right to know what they did wrong rather than just being sent to prison not knowing what they did wrong. If they are sent to prison they can have rights to not be tortured.No one has the right to torture humans. A good argument would be that some people deserve to be tortured, because they might have information on certain things that North Korea wants to know or needs to know. The North Korean government also wants to know if there are other people that are involved so that they can punish them too. One human right is that everyone should be equal before the law and there shouldn't be class divisions based upon wealth. One human right is that humans should have the right to food and shelter, A important human right is that no one can take away your human rights. Another argument would be that your human rights can be taken away in certain situations such as if you commit a crime that is considered horrible. North Korea is the most secretive nation in the world, so you probably wonder how

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