Posted on 12/05/2013 3:45:00 AM PST by Pan_Yan
North Korea is pushing ahead with plans to expand its infamous labor camps for political prisoners, according to a report released Wednesday by Amnesty International.
The human rights group released satellite images reportedly showing continued expansion at two of the country's largest political prison camps, including new housing blocks, production facilities, and reinforced perimeter security.
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The satellite images, taken in May 2013, indicate a slight increase in population at Camp 16, the largest political prison camp in North Korea, with new housing blocks visible. In 2011, an estimated 20,000 people were believed be imprisoned at the camp, Amnesty said.
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A report released by the Washington-based Committee for Human Rights in North Korea in September said thousands of prisoners may have died following the 2011 closure of Camp 22 in North Hamyong province.
The group, citing an account from a North Korean defector, said the notorious camp once held an estimated 30,000 inmates, but numbers rapidly deteriorated to 3,000 amid a food shortage.
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The whole bleeding nation is a prison camp. No detailed views required.
Labor camps - you mean Affordable Housing Act being implemented in the Rainbow Nation Communist Republic of North Korea and Enslavement!
geez...end the aid - let China pay for that - or not - and get these people out of the miserable situation!
The leaders of North Korea, staring with Kim at the top and going all the way down, are, quite simply, monsters and an all-too-vivid refutation of anyone who claims that there’s no such thing as evil.
Both pictures show dates of September 23, 2011. One is color, the other black and white. What change in the time frame is that?
If you like your gulag you can keep your gulag. Period.
If your gulag is substandard, we will replace it with a worse one. Period.
You can fool all of the people some time, some of the people all the time, but you can not fool all the people all the time. A. Lincoln
I do not know what criteria the North Korean government uses to decide who should be put into prison camps, but unless the choice is purely random (and knowing the North Koreans that is a possibility) what this shows is even after 50 plus years of indoctrination there are some who do not fully support the government.
As long as there is some resistance to the party line, there is hope for change.
Any opposition to the government or its policies by you or any close family member will land you in the camps, probably for the rest of your life.
And they know that, so why would anyone oppose the government? There must be something that we do not understand that would cause an individual to do something they know will place them and their family in prison.
On a side note, it seems to me that the North Koreans are performing an experiment on human development. They are “culling” from their genetic pool people who do not conform.
A long term question is will this help or hurt North Korea. I suspect that it will in the long run hurt as they will lose the ability to “think outside the box”.
North Korea, leading the way in closing the income inequality gap...
They don’t have to think outside the box.
Seeing as we allowing them to become nuclear power both in their own right and passing along the technology to terrorist states, as long as they don’t piss off China, they don’t need to be subtle or creative.
How about overheads of our FEMA camps, for comparison? < /sarc >
MacArthur was right. Had we listened to him, North Koreans would today be living like South Koreans.
Calling Chuck Norris and Rambo!
True. But even more importantly there would be no North/South Koreans. Only just Koreans -- a unified nation and people.
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