I like GP, and stuff I found out about North Korea so please pray for the country!

oh dear we completely forgot to invite yuxun. i just did haha, at least, i HOPE i added the correct email.

haha GP. its quite fun don't you think? except i almost always fail my content because i have no input of facts and i just have opinions that deviate from the main question. WELL. the last GP question i did was "Boundaries that separate people are not only shown on maps. Agree?" i think i went a little off topic but i still passed, phew for that. Gp is fun though, less stressful than any other subject and you can talk about anything you like, you have so many options.

post, people, post! a class blog can never have too many posts :)

-Kerryn


PS. Huihan, the fact that there was a model essay on how religion still plays a large role in society roday does not make that a fact. If it was a fact it wouldnt even be in GP because the whole point of GP is to debate conflicting/differing opinions and views. Even though I also feel that religion plays a large role in society today. I think its kind of broad though. What kind of societies? Traditional, conservative, modern, developed, secular?

Sighs contradictory to the title, I find GP kind of meaningless now. I mean, what ind of argument is it when all youre usually supposed to do is to address the issue in a different context and environment and discuss how the various factors lead to various outcomes? It becomes set, like a format, and that's quite disgusting really. It ruins the art of the entire thing.

PSS. I was also reading up on North Korea in between doing this stupid crazy killer Math quiz online for school, and DID YOU KNOW THAT

1. Gulags exist in North Korea(no surprise there. political prisoners in a communist/socialist state are common no?). Those gulags are considered to be one of the worst forms of violations of humans rights ever, and most of the world is stilll blind to that. Their existence was doubted for awhile, but then there were testimonies of escaped gulag prisoners and also satellite images that proved them to be very real indeed.

3. Prisoners are all made to witness executions, and the executions can be more brutal than animal slaughters because the prisoners are told that they're not even fit to be humans. In fact, many North Korean escapees say that to survive mentally/psychologically, they had to stop thining of themselves as humans.

4. And while the poor toil and sweat for the Dear Leader Kim Jong Il, the elites(high up in the ranks of the Party) splurge on luxury.

5. Those caught escaping are executed. Some who commit certain ridiculous crimes are either incarcerated or executed, and even their entire family clan is wiped out to stop the seed of dissent from spreading. Oh dear.

6. People flee North Korea usually NOT because they are oppressed or do not like the dictatorship etc, but because they are STARVING and dying from hunger

7. Back to the gulags, there are at least an estimated 200,000 prisoners there. Believed to be more. And about 20-25% die there each year

8. And even more horrific, new born babies of prisoners are killed right after being delivered, and before delivery, induced abortions on those prisoners are also common.

9. Similar to the Nazi concentration camps, biochemical experiments are being tested on the prisoners, and you can bet that the results are never pretty

10. Prisonerss usually escape to China at the China-North Korean border because the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea is too heavily guarded. Some who escape successfully get married to Chinese but because of China's strict system, they're not registered citizens. They would never bother registering because if found out, they'd get deported back to North Korea by the Chinese authorities. Thus, their children are not registered as well, and once you aren't registered in China, your children have no rights to education and other welfare.

Do you see WHY Humans Rights is so important now?

North Korea is so going on my prayer list tonight.