For hundreds of years, human societies have struggled to achieve utopia. However, there have been many conflicts between humanity and social power. Since the Renaissance, numerous people have fought and shed blood to obtain their basic human rights. For example, the United States of America, over the last 200 years, has gone through many significant historical events, transforming itself into a nation with reserved civil rights. In 1953, when North Korea became a communist country, the ideals of communism attracted many people because communism seemed to establish a just and equal society for all people without any discrimination. However, with human nature of selfishness and greed, North Korea has transformed into a tyrannical government full of oppression. Ironically, the North Korean government still claims to be a democratic country while oppressing its people into unremitting poverty and misery. As a result, the nation was inclined to be in great difficulty in the current era. Every day, tears never dry on the faces of many North Korean children and parents; fears overwhelm people who live with limited hopes and dreams. For many in prison, torture is the common terror. In North Korea, physical or psychological torture is often used for "humiliation or annihilation of a person's dignity" (article on violation of human rights). This degradation of self-respect and basic human rights ultimately leads to self-destruction. Furthermore, North Korean suppressors have used such torture to take away people's hope. Furthermore, they are so repressed that they will mistakenly believe that they live in an ideal country. With so many restrictions and harsh laws, people are cut off from the world. United...... at the center of the paper ...... agonizingly close to freedom sent back into the North Korean nightmare." CNN. Cable News Network, 01 January 1970. Web. 28 November 2013. Harden, Blaine. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Extraordinary Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West New York: Viking, 2012. Print "Human Rights Violations | Beyond Intractability." Human Rights Violations | Beyond Intractability. Np, nd Web. November 26, 2013. King, Martin Luther. I Have a Dream. New York: Scholastic, 1997. Print. "Freedom in North Korea ." Freedom in North Korea Home Comments. Np, nd Web. November 26, 2013. "North Korean defector offers glimpse of life in his homeland." Thestar.com, nd Web. November 28, 2013. "The Universal Declaration of Rights human rights, UDHR, Declaration of Human Rights, Declaration of Human Rights, Charter of Human Rights, United Nations and human rights." UN NewsCenter. UN, nd Web. 27 November. 2013.