Over 4 million have died of starvation as a result of a government-organized famine, an event that parallels the Holomodor famine-genocide in Ukraine (1932-33) executed by Josef Stalin, Kim Il-sung¡¯s mentor. Though billions in aid has been sent to North Korea, more than enough to feed the entire population, studies reveal that North Korea has diverted the aid to strengthen its military while systematically preventing food from reaching the hardest-hit areas. The evidence confirms that the regime has harbored an intention to destroy specific groups of people whom they deem politically unreliable, and the famine has served as a means to this end.
June 25, 2011, marked the 61 anniversary of the outbreak of the Korean War, a proxy war resulting in over 3 million dead yet is now referred to in the West as the "Forgotten War." Though South Korea has since prospered, their compatriots in the North have been perishing in a nightmare situation scholar Daniel Goldhagen calls ¡°worse than war:¡± this is genocide.
There is no place in the world today where people are suffering such horrendous atrocities and injustices to this scale. It is imperative that all people of the Republic of Korea, regardless of status or political affiliation, take immediate and greater action to effectively rescue their compatriots in the North.
My recommendations to the Republic of Korea:
1) Execute Diplomatic Protection for North Korean Refugees in China. China continues to forcibly repatriate North Korean refugees in violation of the 1951 Refugee Convention and its 1967 Protocol. Refugees returned to North Korea face detainment in the gulag, torture and execution. Tens of thousands have been killed as a direct result of China¡¯s inhumane and illegal policy of forced repatriation. It is now incumbent upon the government of the Republic of Korea to exercise their right of diplomatic protection over North Korean defectors in China, who are citizens of South Korea according to the Constitution, as every other method of resolving this humanitarian disaster has been exhausted and to no avail.
2) Increase Financial Support to North Korean Defectors. An estimated 49 percent of North Korean defectors in South Korea regularly (and effectively) send money to their families and friends in the North. This represents an opportunity to not only save physical lives in regions no NGO can access but also to declare in unequivocal terms our solidarity with those who have been victimized by the regime. I call on all South Korean churches, civic groups and all individuals who claim to have a concern for the lives of the North Korean people to begin supporting the life-saving work of the North Korean defectors.
3) Mass Demonstrations. There has never been a mass demonstration (over 100,000 people) protesting genocide and crimes against humanity in North Korea. Meanwhile, the camps continue to grow and countless innocent people continue to be murdered in silence at the hands of this criminal regime. All churches, civic groups and individuals with a genuine compassion must now use their influence to summon the nation for non-violent protests.
When activists will be able to balloon launch photographs of mass demonstrations in the South on behalf of Korean victims of genocide in the North, Kim Jong-il's regime will be overcome and Korea will be unified.¢Á
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