North Korea A Slave State

This article titled "Worse than 1984: North Korea, A Slave State" discusses the treatment of North Korean citizens and their lack of freedom. The author of the article compares it to George Orwell's novel 1984, and even says that their conditions are worse than the fictional ones created in the book. This surprised me a little bit. I have read the book and thought Orwell's ideas were far-fectched and unrealistic. But once I read this article, I realized that it can indeed be compared to North Korea's reality.
In the DPRK, everyone has the same curfew time at which they may not be wandering the streets, but at home and in bed. The country is famined. Entire towns are abandoned and destroyed. People suffer from malnutrition. It's no wonder why the amount of people taking risks by crossing the border to China is increasing.
Many people are starting to leave North Korea with the constant threat of being sent back home. Human rights is a huge issue in the region and needs to be recognized. I agree with the author when he said "Other countries, including our own, should announce that they will take specified numbers of refugees, in case the current steady trickle should suddenly become an inundation." Refugees can't just flood into one country, so other countries should offer hospitality and be willing to assist those who have gone through so much in order to receive the rights every human deserves. It is urgent that something be done about this problem, and seeing that Kim Jong-il and other slave masters are only making matters worse with North Korea's concentration camps, other countries should step in to save the miserable state of the people there.