Chonchon, or any other city in North Korea other then the opulent capital and home of its psychopathic dictator Kim Jung-iL; is hands down probably one of the worst places of all to live.

To call Kim Jung-iL’s government oppressive is a gross understatement. According to Amnesty International, North Korea has the worse record on human rights than any other nation on the planet.

The North Korean government may be unique in all the world in its readiness to starve its own people, more than 2 million North Koreans have died of starvation since 1990 - while at the same time deny them basic civil rights as well as access to healthcare. So why don’t they just leave?

Travel within the country is practically against the law for all but the richest and highest-ranking government officials - attempting to leave it is likely to result in beatings, imprisonment and, in documented cases, execution.

And now their insane leader has Nukes as well as really bad hair.

It is illegal to take photographs in Chonchon North Korea - but we have risked life and beer to get you this magnificent picture of the largest fir tree in world. It stretches to an incredible 3 miles high and is 400 yards wide at the base. ((The white object on the right hand side of the tree is a 58 story apartment block.)

Evil dictator Kim Jung-iL was very annoyed that no one had phoned him . . . then he remembered that he'd banned phones, the internet, fun, sex . . .

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Since 1995, well over 2 million North Koreans have starved to death from years of famine, and another 300,000 have fled to neighboring China in search of food and freedom from tyranny. The Chinese government has refused to grant these North Koreans official status as refugees, due largely to Beijing's historical ties to the communist regime in Pyongyang and fears that such a designation would dramatically boost the already steady influx over the border. The People’s Republic of China has stepped up security in and around its borders with North Korea to ensure the capture and return of refugees, whom it continues to call “illegal migrants”.

Once refugees are forcefully repatriated from China, they are regarded by DPRK authorities as traitors of the state and face intense interrogation. Such interrogation is often followed by extended detention (often in prison camps), torture of various kinds, and in extreme cases, summary execution. A growing body of testimonies by successful escapees describe how repatriated pregnant women are subject to forced abortion, especially if the father of their child is Chinese. The border region poses a special danger for female refugees, where a very high percentage of them (70-90%) are captured and sold into sexual slavery.

Those arrested for aiding North Korean refugees in China face severe fines, deportation or prison time.

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