some good news for regular prisoners in North Korea

good news if you are a common prisoner but not if you're a political prisoner...

a quote from the article

 The move to declare mass amnesty is connected to the regime’s attempts to portray Kim as a “leader who makes generous decisions because of his love for the people.” 

 i don't think so....😝😝😝💩

overall though, it's good news. especially for those already in a gulag and for their families

https://www.dailynk.com/english/north-korea-announces-three-year-reductions-in-some-prison-camp-sentences/

North Korean Nuclear Program Explained

i came across this today.
it's a satirical enactment of why the north reacted with a nuke program of its own.
after the armistice, the united states deployed missiles in the ROK capable of delivering a nuke. the missiles were called honest john.
the north found out about this and reacted with a program of their own.

that's what this clip is about

i should also add that the united states (cia) has been secretly moving weapons grade plutonium round Japan for years also.
even though Japan has nuclear energy, it also has the ability to make nukes of it's own according to alot of research by Joseph Trento.

again. not defending the DPRK regime, just pointing out that the u.s. is no angel either. 

http://theinternationalforecaster.com/topic/international_forecaster_weekly/japans_stealth_army

North Korea has over 2.6 million 'modern slaves'

 People normally associate the practice of slavery to have long been put out of use. While this may be the case in the majority of the world, unfortunately, there are still many places where slavery is still prevalent. North Korea currently has the highest prevalence of slavery. Based on the 2018 Global Slavery Index, there are approximately 2.6 million 'modern slaves' in North Korea.

The term 'modern slavery' is defined as forced labor, human trafficking, economic leverage such as "debt bondage", forced marriages, and child labor. It is evident that the North Korean government has the "weakest response to slavery out of all the countries surveyed [in the 2018 Global Slavery Index]", and this weakness is highlighted due to the North Korean Regime's constant use of forced labor within and outside the nation. 

Although there have been talks of denuclearization and a potential alliance between the United States and North Korea, there hasn't been a formal discussion towards rectifying the blatant human rights violation occurring within North Korea. 

           As Amanda Mortwedt Oh of the Committee of Human Rights in North Korea said, North Korea is a slave state. Any talks of peace and partnership should first involve a conversation addressing the human violations, such as modern slavery, that the North Korean Regime commits daily. How can the World trust a nation that puts their own citizens in shackles?

Many North Koreans are human trafficked to other nations and become forced laborers.

Link to the Global Slavery Index

Link to other articles pertaining to the modern slavery in North Korea:

1. http://humantraffickingsearch.org/north-korean-slave-labor/

2.https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2018/07/19/north-korea-has-2-6-million-modern-slaves-new-report-estimates/

3.https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/07/19/north-korea-has-modern-day-slaves-world-report-reveals-rights/

Increase in ghosts ships off Japan west coast

I did a post about this a couple of months ago representing Joshua Stantons good research on the cause of the ghost ships off Japans coast. see below link.

https://woodbridgenkinusa.blogspot.com/2018/03/north-korean-ghost-ships.html

this one came in from the DailyNK reporting that the number of north Korean shipwrecks have increased.

They will be doing a five part series on this and will be interesting to see what conclusion they come to.
As mentioned in the previous post, Stanton concluded that the NK regime had sold fishing rights to China forcing the average fisherman further out to sea to get a decent catch.
i'm guessing that still holds judging from the recent increase in wrecks found.
Chinas big trawlers would be sucking everything up in the region

https://www.dailynk.com/english/number-of-north-korean-shipwrecks-shot-up-in-2017/