This comment from the WSJ particularly impressed me:
“The author touched upon a few crimes against humanity perpetrated by Kim Jong Il, and I want to elaborate on the “prison system” aka concentration camps or “political reeducation camps” as they are known.

North Korea practices the 3 generation rule: anyone speaking out against Kim Jong Il, found attempting to escape to China, or illegally countering the propaganda is sent to a political reeducation camp along with his family, his parents, and his children (the 3 generation rule) or his grandchildren, if his parents are dead.

I quote:

“Most North Koreans are sent there without any judicial process. Many inmates die in the camps unaware of the charges against them. Guilt by association is legal under North Korean law, and up to three generations of a wrongdoer’s family are sometimes imprisoned, following a rule from North Korea’s founding dictator, Kim Il Sung: “Enemies of class, whoever they are, their seed must be eliminated through three generations.”

Those who kill themselves out of despair are sentencing their surviving relatives to longer and more brutal terms of imprisonment. ”

For political crimes, members of the family are tortured and killed, depending on the severity.

I am hugely interested in Obama’s visit to Korea, not only as a Korean-American, but simply as a member of humanity. Will it change anything? Probably not. But, at the very least, the North Korean people will get some exposure to their plight and maybe a few readers will grasp the true horror of the atrocities that are performed in NK, on a daily basis. There is, literally, no place worse than living in NK.”