Economic Justice: the measures taken by a society to ensure that the essentials needed for survival are adequately provided to its members, that mercy in financial dealings be taken in dealing with those who are lacking in finances, and that those who are able to spare their resources give to those who are in desperate need. The poor are to be taken care of, they are to be fed and supplied with just enough to maintain existence. No one should be in such desperate want that they have to kill another human being so that they might use them for food.
In the Bible, economic justice is a means of upholding the value of human life and dignity, and protecting others from death due to lack of basic needs. Why can't another nation spare the same dignity to North Korea? The article explicates the gruesome travesties the war prisoners of North Korean concentration camps endure and live by in the "Hidden Gulag". People are daily losing their humanity, their dignity, and their sanity. Families commit unthinkable acts merely to fill their appallingly empty stomachs. Cannibalism is acceptable, your seven month old child is no longer just a human being, but a meal. People are going insane due to starvation; and are themselves consumed by horrific methods of survival--they have no other choice. .
Perhaps if those who have food would give sufficient rations to each family, and would supply other basic needs, the prisoners of North Korea would not be reduced to such a demeaning and despair-filled existence. They may be prisoners, and as such they perhaps should be detained. However, they should not be starved. They should not be allowed to reach such a point to where the human in them no longer exists. .
If a man is hungry, give him some food. If he is unable to repay a debt, forgive it of him and require it no more. If a man has no means to repay you, then how can you expect it of him? Do not delay in giving in hopes that you will preserve the number of your possessions, the poor man has no possessions to lose.
