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Public Eye Turning Away from North Korea’s Abuses

Translated From a Recent Issue of the LFNKR Newsletter

Tragedy Awaits Withdrawal from Activities for Human Rights in North Korea

By Ken Kato — ICNK Affiliate-Director, Human Rights in Asia


 

Milgram’s Experiment

TO~ everyone dedicated to maintaining human rights activities for the North Korean people:

Human Trafficking Victim – Lee Sun Ja

Name:                 Lee Sun Ja
(Female, Name changed for safety)
Date of Birth:  1981
Hometown:      Hamgyong Bukto, North Korea

When I was three years old, my parents suddenly disappeared. Nobody knows if they died or if they were sent into a concentration camp for political prisoners. My step-parents treated me worse than a beast. I was hardly fed daily, so I grew up as a beggar. Since I remained a Kot-jebi (street child) until I escaped into China, I never had a chance to go to a school. In North Korea, while I was living the Kot-jebi life, I begged but I also broke into houses to steal from time to time.