Ariana News Agency-<\/strong>The three officials, Jong Kyong Thaek, Choe Ryong Hae, and Pak Kwong Ho, play a critical role in ensuring ideological purity and the continuation of the propaganda of the Kim regime.<\/p>\n Treasury\u2019s actions, taken on Human Rights Day, send North Korea the message that U.S. policy is about more than just denuclearization.<\/p>\n North Korea ranks among the world\u2019s worst human rights abusers. Hundreds of thousands, possibly even millions, have perished in the country\u2019s brutal political prison camps.<\/p>\n People are killed in broad daylight for crossing the Kim regime. Defectors share stories of starvation, forced abortions, and watching three generations of their family languish, even die, in North Korea\u2019s modern-day gulags.<\/p>\n Many of those same defectors fled from Pyongyang\u2019s grip because they had access to outside information.<\/p>\n Watching a South Korean drama or listening to radio programs from churches, nongovernmental organizations and fellow North Koreans who defected before them convinced them that life was, in fact, better beyond the 38th parallel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" New sanctions against North Korea, issued by the Department of Treasury on Dec. 10, designated three North Koreans for censoring and restricting access to information in the Hermit Kingdom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1266,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_mat_hreflang_tags":[],"addvideo":"","video_duration":"","farsit":"","target":"0","top_stories":"0","top":"0"},"categories":[306],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-human-rights"],"acf":{"myctype":"change","target":false,"top_stories":false,"top":false,"farsit":""},"yoast_head":"\n