North Koreans are forced to pay bribes to officials to survive in their isolated...
GENEVA - North Koreans are forced to pay bribes to officials to survive in their isolated country, where corruption is “endemic” and repression rife, the United Nations human rights office said on Tuesday.Officials across North Korea extort money from a population struggling to make ends meet, threatening them with detention and prosecution - particularly those working in the informal economy, it said in a report.
“I am concerned that the constant focus on the nuclear issue continues to divert attention from the terrible state of human rights for many millions of North Koreans,” Michelle Bachelet, U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, said in a statement. “The threat of arrest, detention and prosecution provide State officials with a powerful means of extorting money from a population struggling to survive,” the U.N. rights office report said.
“If you just follow instructions coming from the State, you starve to death,” a woman from Ryanggang, now living in South Korea, was quoted as saying.“If you have money you can get away with anything, including murder,” another unnamed North Korean defector testified.
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