Kim Chambers

There's no supermarkets in North Korea, no cell phones, no world wide web, no cable tv. no electricity at night, but every single home or village has an audio speaker that's hardwired to pre-set frequencies that starts broadcasting at 6am each morning telling the people how lucky they are, the gov't propaganda tells them their in paradise. The USCommission on International Freedom reported in 2005: "There are no personal freedoms in North Korea." Any and all civil liberties are considered a threat to the regime. Domestic opponents are murdered. Crimes in North Korea include slandering Kim Jong-Il or the government you go to the gulag, listening to foreign broadcasts is a crime, reading "subversive" material -- is a crime, even sitting on a newspaper that displays Kim's picture is a crime. Failure to play by the rules means time in Jong-Il's hard-labor camps that hold more than 200000 men, women and children. The North Korean Freedom Coalition estimates that 400000 to 1 million North Korean political prisoners have died from starvation, torture, execution and some in gas chambers since the camps were set up in 1972.