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According to a North Korean defector, North Korea considered inviting a delegation of the UN Commission on Human Rights to visit the Yodok prison camp in 1996. [15] Lee Soon-ok gave detailed testimony on her treatment in the North Korean prison system to the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary in 2002. In her statement she said, "I ...
Database Center for North Korean Human Rights. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-02-28. – Comprehensive analysis of various aspects of life in political prison camps "North Korea: Political Prison Camps". Amnesty International. – Document on camp conditions (torture, executions, hunger, child labor, forced labor) in North Korean ...
According to Hwang Jang-yop, the former leader of the Workers’ Party of Korea, Pukchang camp is the oldest North Korean prison camp and was already erected by 1958. [2] Like in Yodok camp there is one section for political prisoners in lifelong detention and another section functioning as a reeducation camp .
Chongjin camp is a lifetime prison. Like the other political prison camps it is controlled by the state security agency. [2] But while the other camps include many vast prison-labour colonies in remote mountain valleys, Chongjin camp is only one big prison building complex similar to the reeducation camps. [3]
“When North Korean workers, who have lived their entire lives trapped in a restrictive system, experience life abroad, they come to see North Korea as nothing short of a prison,” Ahn said.
Kaechon concentration camp (also spelled Kaech'ŏn or Gaecheon) is a prison in North Korea with many political prisoners. The official name is Kyo-hwa-so (Reeducation camp) No. 1 . It is not to be confused with Kaechon internment camp (Kwan-li-so Nr. 14), which is located 20 km (12 mi) to the south-east.
"Political Prison Camps in North Korea Today" (PDF). Database Center for North Korean Human Rights. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-10-19. – Comprehensive analysis of various aspects of life in political prison camps. "North Korea: New satellite images show continued investment in the infrastructure of repression". Amnesty International.
Madeleine Gavin, like many readers, was haunted by the story of Hyeonseo Lee, a woman who fled North Korea with her family in the 1990s and documented their perilous journey in her bestselling ...