North Korea is a form of totalitarianism government that we now experience today. North Korea is so powerful and strict that if something isn’t done to stop them they won’t ever be stopped. Jun Do is an example because he was sent to a concentration camp in North Korea after coming back home from visiting the United States. Jun Do was raised in the Long Tomorrows Orphanage.  The concentration camps in North Korea are an example of how a totalitarianism government can be very cruel to the people living under their rule. Jun Do experienced a lot of torture in the concentration camps. Jun Do’s job in the concentration camp was to be a tunnel fighter. Jun Do once said “he was working darkness beneath the demilitarized zone that separates North Korea from South Korea” (Baker, 2012). Jun Do feels he wasn’t even treated like a human in the concentration camp because he was always getting beaten if he didn’t do something exactly right. He also feels that he doesn’t get much to eat and he is always forced to be working from morning until night to rest a few hours. I think Jun Do would say that he would have rather stayed in America if he would have known that he was coming back to a concentration camp in North Korea. Another thing that happened to Jun Do is that once he was sent to the concentration camp a guy known as Commander Ga. Stole his identity to live with his wife. Knowing that everyday someone is living with his wife also probably makes Jun Do feel like he should have stayed in America. Jun Do was accused of being a kidnapper because he left and went to the United States for a while also he was accused of snatching Japanese citizens. Jun Do said that “he was just visiting and seeing how life was in the United States” (Baker, 2012) also he was sent there on a mission that no one knows about. He did this by going to Texas and encountering things such as barbecued ribs, cowboy boots, and a pet dog which dogs were hated, beaten, and eaten in North Korea. Jun Do was killed one day in the concentration camp by Commander Ga. which was the guy who had stolen his identity. There is not a reason said why Commander Ga. killed him. I think that killing Jun Do was probably good and also I think it is bad because he is dead. The reason I think it is kind of good is because he doesn’t have to go through all the torture at the concentration camp. Another reason I think it was kind of good is because he was probably never going to get out of the concentration camp. I don’t know how Jun Do feels about being killed but, he said that “he hated being in the concentration camp and it was just torture every day” (Baker, 2012). Just think about all the people killed in concentration camps through the years. Have you ever thought about it even though we don’t have concentration camps in America? People in North Korea probably think that the way we run our country is bad because they believe in totalitarianism. In North Korea you can be put in a concentration camp and it’s legal but, in America it’s illegal to be put in a concentration camp. The closest thing we ever had to concentration camps were slavery until the end of the Civil War slavery was ended. Now today we live in a free country, and have freedoms many might never have the chance to have.

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