Facts About North Korea

-Over 3 million people have died from starvation since Kim Jung Il took power.

-An estimated 1,000 people die per day.

-There is no freedom of speech, press, or religion.

-Anyone who speaks against the government is immediately arrested, tortured, imprisoned for life in a concentration camp, or killed.

-An estimated 250,000 North Koreans are held in concentration camps as political prisoners.

-Tens of thousands of North Koreans cross into China to escape famine, economic privation, and political oppression.

-Around 70% of North Korean women and children who escape into China face serious exploitation, or sex trafficking.

-Given the danger of the DMZ, the North Korea-China border is the only border to which North Koreans may feasibly cross. China considers North Koreans solely as illegal immigrants--not as refugees--and repatriates them.