Here are the worst crimes committed by North Korea's leaders!
8 - Insurance Fraud North Korea earns "tens of millions of dollars"
annually by defrauding foreign insurance companies, and these schemes have been going on for 30
years.
They take out insurance on helicopters and ships and other expensive property and collect
when the property gets "destroyed," which happens surprisingly often.
The Korean Foreign Insurance Company, the only insurance company in the country, is
in charge of finding out whether the claims are fake.
Guess what?
Somehow, they're always legitimate.
In one sad case, the claim was real.
A train collision at the Ryongchon station caused flammable cargo to explode, killing
over 3,000 people.
Kim Jong Il, the president at the time, ordered North Korea's railway chief and several other
transportation officials to be executed.
The things you insure aren't supposed to really get destroyed.
I'm trying to figure out, why would anyone insure these guys?!
7 - Hiding prisoners of war This crime has nothing to do with money, and
everything to do with keeping secrets and spreading lies.
By the end of the Korean War it's estimated that anywhere from 50,000 to 70,000 prisoners
had been taken by North Korea.
The issue of unaccounted South Korean POWs from the Korean War has been in dispute since
the Korean Armistice Agreement in 1953.
Less than 9,000 South Korean prisoners were ever returned, and just fewer than 14,000
prisoners were known to have been killed.
A few prisoners voluntarily joined the North Korean army, but the vast majority were organized
into "construction brigades" and forced to work in coal mines, factories, and farm
villages in the northern-most parts of the country.
After the war, prisoners that had been held by the Chinese and Soviets were handed over
to North Korea and suffered the same fate.
According to accounts of prisoners who escaped after 50 years, at least 500 have survived
and are still being held today.
International Humanitarian Law requires that prisoners of war must be released and repatriated
without delay after a war is over, but obeying international laws is not something North
Korea is very familiar with.
To date, the status of 19,409 soldiers hasn't been confirmed.
6 – Illegal Drug Trades For a communist country, North Korea has quite
a few entrepreneurs willing to take a chance at running a business for profit.
A former State Security Department agent said that every government agency was given an
annual quota of foreign currency they had to earn.
The Government didn't care where the money came from, so officials were urged to be creative.
North Korea's illegal drug trade dates back to the 1970s and includes the manufacturing,
selling, and trafficking of illicit drugs, as well as counterfeit pharmaceutical drugs.
Production began in the Hamkyung and Yangkang Provinces, particularly in the village of
Yonsah, where Kim Il-Sung sanctioned the creation of an opium farm.
In order to provide a cover of legitimacy, the North Korean government uses front companies
to conduct its illegal activities.
One such company, the Ryugyong Corporation, holds large tracts of land within the country
for the sole purpose of growing opium.
Each year the company sent tens of thousands of dollars in cash to Kim Jong Il for his
use.
Unlike most companies, Ryugyong Corporation has no import or export quota restrictions.
Reports of methamphetamine use in North Korea surfaced in the late 90's.
The production of "meth" in North Korea is done by chemists and other underemployed scientists.
Methamphetamine is actually given as a medication within North Korea, which obviously helped
to fuel its spread.
As the production and sale of opium declined in the mid-2000s, methamphetamine became much
more widespread.
To bring in much needed cash, the international meth trade began, spreading first to China,
and with the drug being made in state-run laboratories.
China officially admitted to the drug problem stemming from North Korea in 2004.
The production, storage, financing, and sale of the North Korean meth trade reaches multiple
countries, including the Philippines, the US, Hong Kong and Thailand.
In 2010, five foreign nationals were prosecuted as part of a conspiracy involving North Korea
to smuggle 40 pounds of meth into the United States and to sell it for $30,000 a pound.
5 - Discrimination The Democratic People's Republic of Korea
likes to present itself as a State where equality, non-discrimination and equal rights are given
to all.
That's not exactly what it looks like on the ground.
The government keeps carefully recorded information on every citizen of the country and places
them into one of three categories: "hostile," "wavering," or "core" based on their
family history of loyalty.
These are called songbun categories.
Songbun means "ingredient" or the right stuff.
Your songbun tells you what kind of house you can live in, what job you can do, how
much food you get, what schools you go to, and even who you are allowed to marry.
Naturally, the "core" class gets the best of everything.
For those wavering in the middle, moving up is almost impossible, but moving down is surprisingly
easy.
The government carefully monitors your thoughts and performance at work through weekly confession
and criticism sessions.
The "hostiles" were originally those that owned land or were Christian.
They're the biggest threat, according to the government, and they live in deplorable
conditions far from the capital to make sure they don't spread their dangerous corruption.
4 - Labor Camps When you're accused of a political offense
in North Korea, you get sent to an internment camp.
Political prisoners are subject to guilt by association punishment.
They're deported with parents, children and siblings, and sometimes even grandparents
or grandchildren, without any lawsuit or conviction, and are detained for the rest of their lives!
A UN Commission found that inmates in political prison camps are slaves and subjected to a
lifetime of hard and dangerous labor.
Most often they are worked to death.
There is no way out.
If you follow the rules, you keep working.
The food rations are very small, so that the prisoners are constantly on the brink of starvation.
In combination with the hard work this leads to huge numbers of prisoners dying.
An estimated 40% of prisoners die from malnutrition.
Anyone who attempts to escape gets killed.
So what are the type of things you have to do to get sent to an internment camp?
Disloyalty is a popular crime.
If you say anything against the government or the blessed leader you get sent to a prison
camp.
Almost as bad, is saying anything positive about any other country.
Displaying a positive attitude to the Soviet Union got a lot of people executed or sent
to prison camps.
A staff member of a hospital in Hamgyong Province got investigated for a month after he accidentally
broke the glass on a portrait of Kim Jong-il while cleaning it, but was eventually released.
Children in prison camps don't have to go to school past elementary school, because
it gets in the way of working.
How do children land in prison camps?
They committed the unpardonable offense of having disloyal parents.
3 - Kidnappings Ever since 1950, North Korea has engaged in
the systematic kidnapping of people from other countries.
Most of the abductions were linked to the Korean War, but hundreds of nationals from
South Korea, China, Japan, and other countries were abducted between the 1960s and 1980s.
The abductions of Japanese citizens from Japan the North Korean government happened during
a period of six years from 1977 to 1983.
Although only 17 Japanese citizens are officially recognized by the Japanese government as having
been abducted, there may have been hundreds of victims.
The North Korean government however, has officially admitted to abducting "only" 13 Japanese
citizens.
There are testimonies that many non-Japanese citizens, including nine European citizens
have been abducted by North Korea.
In recent years, North Korea has taken to abducting its own people and South Koreans
from countries like China.
North Korea uses its army, navy, and intelligence service to track people down and kidnap them.
Most of the people kidnapped have some knowledge or skill sorely missing in North Korea, or
they're women, kidnapped to serve as wives for other foreign workers.
North Korea does this to prevent the catastrophe of interracial children.
Some of the women are also subjected to sexual exploitation.
Some foreign nationals have also been kidnapped while visiting North Korea, so if you're
planning a trip there, just don't.
And if you do go there, definitely don't pull a Otto Warmbier (UVA student who was
guilty of stealing a political poster and sentenced to prison).
2 - Mind control of Children Educating the youth to create model citizens
is very important to North Korea.
Children are taught that they should aspire only to emulate Kim Jong-un.
Kids should only draw pictures of the Supreme Leader or make drawings that would please
him.
Good drawings are put up in schools.
Typically, they either depict the Kim family or show children stabbing Japanese or American
soldiers with swords or pencils.
Children are taught that they should be happy to risk their lives for the values of their
leaders, Kim Il-sung, Kim Jong-il, and now Kim Jong-un.
Giant posters of the leader and patriotic images surround the children at all times.
All school subjects reflect the state ideology.
Children participate in weekly confession sessions, where they reveal any bad thoughts
they have had or troubling things they've heard other children or their parents say.
Students also participate in mass games.
It sounds like fun, but they have to be careful not to make any mistakes and ruin the ceremonies.
One woman testified to the UN Commission that she missed a whole semester of college because
her class was practicing for a parade for 6 months, 10 hours a day.
In her testimony stated that training takes place in the hot sun, and anyone who makes
mistakes or faints had to stay on the training ground until midnight as punishment.
The teachers often talked of one child who kept training while his appendix ruptured.
He died, but was treated as a hero because he gave his life for an event in the presence
of Kim Jong-il.
1 - Murder At several times in North Korea's history
the leaders made an effort to clean away the bad influences of decadent capitalism and
religion through large scale purges.
Kim Il-sung also periodically instigated instigate purges within the leadership of the party
and military.
People that are purged are either executed or sent to prison camps.
Outside of purges, you can get killed anytime for offenses against the government.
One witness told the UN Commission that a relative of hers had watched CD-roms from
China and lent them to his friends.
He was arrested, tried publically, and executed.
Another form of murder is forced abortion and killing of newborns of any defectors who
got pregnant in China and got sent back.
In 2014, Kim Jong-un, had his uncle, Jang Song Theak, executed for supposed treason.
Afterwards, the new young dictator decided to have the rest of his uncle's family killed,
including children, just to be sure.
In 2015, Kim executed the defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, who reportedly falling asleep
in a meeting.
Kim was so angry that he had the general killed with an anti-aircraft gun so that no part
of him would remain.
Just…….wow.
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