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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 ...
Hwasong concentration camp (Chosŏn'gŭl: 화성 제16호 관리소, also spelled Hwasŏng or Hwaseong) is a labor camp in North Korea for political prisoners. The official name is Kwan-li-so (Penal-labor colony) No. 16. As with other political prison camps located in North Korea, Camp 16 is highly secretive and isolated from the rest of the ...
Kwalliso (Korean: 관리소, Korean pronunciation: [kwa̠ʎʎisʰo̞]) or kwan-li-so is the term for political penal labor and rehabilitation colonies in North Korea.They constitute one of three forms of political imprisonment in the country, the other two being what Washington DC–based NGO Committee for Human Rights in North Korea [1] described as "short-term detention/forced-labor centers ...
Pukch'ang concentration camp (Hangeul: 북창 제18호 관리소, also spelled Bukchang) is a labor camp in North Korea for political prisoners. It is sometimes called Tŭkchang concentration camp (Hangeul: 득장 제18호 관리소, also Deukjang or Dukjang). The official name is Kwan-li-so (Penal-labor colony) No. 18.
Jihyun Park was left to die, unremembered, outside a North Korean labor camp. But sixteen years on, her life has taken an unexpected turn. She's now running to be a local town councilor in England ...
North Korean labour exports increased during the 2000s and peaked during the early 2010s, as part of an effort by the North Korean government to acquire foreign hard currencies. [2] With the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, most migrant labourers were left stranded in their home countries as a result of stringent anti-pandemic ...
Kaechon Internment Camp (Korean: 개천 제14호 관리소, also spelled Kae'chŏn or Gaecheon) is a labor camp in North Korea for political prisoners and descendants of alleged criminals. The official name for the camp is Kwan-li-so (Penal-labor colony) No. 14. The camp is commonly known as Camp 14.