N. KOREA’S CHILD CRUELTY
to break rocks. The perverse regime led by despot Kim Jong-un shamefully suggest the labour is merely “team building” for the desperate youngsters.
Amnesty UK Director Kate Allen said: “The Daily Mirror has lifted the lid on the abuses these children are being subjected to. These distressing images simply don’t belong in the twenty-first century and it’s unacceptable for the world to turn a blind eye.
“It’s no wonder the UN has said North Korea is without parallel in the modern world in terms of human rights abuse, but that’s not enough.
“The UN and other monitoring groups including Amnesty International must urgently be allowed in to North Korea
The Mirror has lifted the lid on the abuses these children are being subjected to
to make a full assessment of the scale of abuses.”
A 2014 UN report detailed rights abuses in North Korea by a “state that does not have any parallel in the contemporary world”.
Forced to work on farms, repair railways, mine for coal, weed neighbourhoods, and even scrub statues of former leaders, these youngsters in North Korea simply don’t have a childhood.
Health officials have stated the backbreaking, hazardous and dangerous roles carried out by children for the regime threaten their health, development and education. Evidence suggests that the youngsters are regularly subjected to violence and even threatened their families will be harmed if they do not complete their work.
Dr Arnold Fang, East Asia Researcher at Amnesty International, said: These images add to the human rights violations that go on every day in North Korea. Forced labour in camps and even starvation is still being practised.
“Looking at the video of the children KATE ALLEN AMNESTY UK DIRECTOR ON CHILD SLAVERY IN NORTH KOREA