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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Refugee Orphan: North Koreans Must Live on in Hope Kim So Yeol, Daily NK,
2008-09-29 www.dailynk.com/english/read.php?cataId=nk02500&num=4115 [accessed 28 June 2011] [The following is the interview
with Park] CAN YOU DESCRIBE THE LIVING
CONDITIONS IN YOUR HOMETOWN? - “Since I was born, the food situation in North Korea has been in
dire straits. From 1997, the situation became more severe. Since 1994, when I
was 10, I started selling in the market, indeed there were many young
children who traveled to other regions to make a living. I would take the
train from Suncheon, South Pyongan
Province to Kimchaek, North Hamkyung
Province and sell goods. I was an ‘itinerant merchant.’ I would bring an empty bag from home, buy
notebooks in Suncheon, go back to Kimchaek and sell them there, then buy cheap salt in Kimchaek, and sell it in Suncheon.
A bag full of salt weighed approximately 15kg. Whenever I rode the train, there were 6 or
7 other children in the same car who were also selling goods. On unlucky
days, we would have to climb on to the roof of the train and ride that way.
Some children died from falling or from being electrocuted.” WERE THERE MANY SUCH CHILDREN IN NORTH
KOREA AT THE TIME? -
“There were a lot of street children (kotjebi) that
had to get by without any help. There would be a black crowd of them at every
station. They were really black because not only were the school uniforms at
that time black, but the children could not wash themselves.” In Suncheon
station alone, the number of children always exceeded 100. The street
children organized themselves into groups of two or three and would steal
food from people at the station, but others ended up starving to death or had
to wait for someone to give them food.” ***
ARCHIVES *** UNICEF -
Democratic People’s www.unicef.org/infobycountry/korea.html [accessed 23 June 2011] Human Rights Reports » 2005
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61612.htm [accessed 14 December 2010] CHILDREN - The state provides 11 years of
free compulsory education for all children. However, in the past some
children were denied educational opportunities and subjected to punishments
and disadvantages as a result of the loyalty classification system and the
principle of "collective retribution" for the transgressions of
family members. Concluding Observations of the Committee on the Rights of
the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 4 June 2004 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/korea2004.html [accessed 14 December 2010] [58] The Committee is concerned
that, according to the State party information, there are some children from
the Democratic People’s Committee
on Rights of Child Considers Report of Democratic People's Republic of [Article headline is mislabeled United Nations Press Release, 1 June 2004 www.hrea.org/lists/child-rights/markup/msg00294.html [accessed 24 July 2011] The situation of street children was
a new phenomenon in the country, the delegation said. Many of the children
came from mountainous regions after having escaped from their families. Those
street children were taken care of by the State and were sent to institutions
where they could get vocational training. Refugee Orphan: North Koreans Must Live on in Hope Kim So Yeol, Daily NK,
2008-09-29 www.dailynk.com/english/read.php?cataId=nk02500&num=4115 [accessed 28 June 2011] [The following is the interview
with Park] CAN YOU DESCRIBE THE LIVING
CONDITIONS IN YOUR HOMETOWN? - “Since I was born, the food situation in North Korea has been in
dire straits. From 1997, the situation became more severe. Since 1994, when I
was 10, I started selling in the market, indeed there were many young
children who traveled to other regions to make a living. I would take the
train from Suncheon, South Pyongan
Province to Kimchaek, North Hamkyung
Province and sell goods. I was an ‘itinerant merchant.’ I would bring an empty bag from home, buy
notebooks in Suncheon, go back to Kimchaek and sell them there, then buy cheap salt in Kimchaek, and sell it in Suncheon.
A bag full of salt weighed approximately 15kg. Whenever I rode the train, there were 6 or
7 other children in the same car who were also selling goods. On unlucky
days, we would have to climb on to the roof of the train and ride that way.
Some children died from falling or from being electrocuted.” WERE THERE MANY SUCH CHILDREN IN Chinese Websites Expose inside Photos of Han Young Jin, Daily NK, 2006-08-24 www.dailynk.com/english/read.php?cataId=nk00100&num=1020 [accessed 28 June 2011] Recently, inside photos of
melancholic North Korean people and starving street children are rampantly
spreading throughout hundreds of Chinese internet sites including sonic BBS,
sina.com and sinotrip. Street kids at Jangmadang
live by begging and eating food scraps. In order to remove street children,
on September 27th 2001, Kim Jong Il directed street
children be accommodated at ‘9.27 institution.’ However, the institution was
uniformly controlled by local authorities and as a result was ultimately
established as a national women’s inn. Although world food organizations
of each country assist with food rations, supplies must surpass regulations.
Food assistance that should be distributed to the people is being sold at Jangmadang. Action Against Hunger Stops Its Activities In Action Against Hunger, 10 Mar 2000 [accessed 28 June 2011] 3/ Most of the malnutrition cases
witnessed by our team was amongst children with no
access to any facilities. Those who were especially hard hit were the «
street children », many of whom were between 3 and 4 years old, and found
wandering alone, while visibly very weak and fighting to collect food. Japanese
TV Airs Interview with NK Foster Children Life Funds for North Korean Refugees LFNKR, 2002 www.northkoreanrefugees.com/fosterkids1.htm [accessed 28 June 2011] "A boy, about 15, lies dead
on the street. All his belongings are gone." So begins the
documentary. But not all street
children die in Prison Video from One Free freekorea.us/2005/01/15/prison-video-from-north-korea/ [accessed 28 June 2011] … another
file, entitled Documentary: "Children of the Closed State" Azgar Ishkildin,
Prima News Agency, 2.8.2001 At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 28 June 2011] They pick up grains of rice and
kernels of corn and suck on discarded fish bones. Around them, Western
humanitarian aid is bought and sold-American corn, wheat from the Red Cross,
rice. The price for the wheat, written on a piece of cardboard, is 80 won per
kilogram. That is the average monthly wage of a North Korean worker. Most of
the customers are members of the military. Protection Project Report - The www.protectionproject.org/human_rights_reports/report_documents/nk.doc [accessed 2009] Street children from North
Koreans Starved Of Right To Food Jim Lobe, Inter Press Service News Agency IPS, www.atimes.com/atimes/Korea/FA22Dg01.html [accessed 28 June 2011] The lack of access to food has had
the greatest impact on children, because of both malnutrition and the loss of
parents who have died of malnutrition or related illness. Unconfirmed reports
have said hundreds of orphans are now living in institutions or have become
street children, without access to food aid or state protection. 2005 Annual Report for Amnesty International At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 28 June 2011] NORTH KOREAN ASYLUM-SEEKERS IN All material used herein
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