According to the believer, the leaders of the camp only provided meals two times a day, each time a cup with 90 pieces of boiled corn.
“I almost died of starvation and the unbearable, heavy work,” he continued. “Most of the prisoners were full of hatred and complained all day, but the Christians prayed and prayed, even though they were beaten terribly and were treated worse than others.”
He spoke of one Christian woman who was “martyred terribly.”
“They beat her over and over again since she didn’t want to stop praying,” he told Open Doors. “She died peacefully while praying to her Lord.”
On the same day that Open Doors released its statement, over 100 human rights, social, academic, and religious groups also issued a joint statement cautioning against the oversight of "inhuman" abuses by North Korea against its own people.
"More needs to be done by the international community to ameliorate the human rights crisis in North Korea and the threats to the world order that its regime poses," the statement read.
The coalition of human rights groups accused the North Korean government of human rights violations, including intentional starvation, kidnapping, forcible separation of families, religious persecution, and trafficking in women and children, in addition to charges that the government uses gas chambers in the possible practice of genocide.
“North Korea is the most repressive nation in the world,” Moeller stated. “It certainly deserves its shameful ranking on the World Watch List.”
“It breaks my heart to hear some of the atrocities against Christians inside the country,” he added.
The long nuclear dispute began in 2002, when the US accused North Korea of violating a nuclear arms programme in international agreements. North Korea denied this and immediately withdrew from the international nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Before today’s breakthrough, three previous rounds of negotiations failed to resolve the issue, and tensions had increased as the US and North Korea's positions looked increasingly unyielding.
