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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 ...
Capital punishment is a legal penalty in North Korea.It is used for many offences, such as grand theft, murder, rape, drug smuggling, treason, espionage, political dissent, defection, piracy, consumption of media not approved by the government and proselytizing religious beliefs that contradict the practiced Juche ideology. [1]
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 ...
Committee for Human Rights in North Korea: The Hidden Gulag Archived 2019-12-14 at the Wayback Machine - Overview of North Korean prison camps with testimonies and satellite photographs Database Center for North Korean Human Rights: Prisoners in North Korea Today - Comprehensive explanation of detention facilities in North Korea based on ...
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.
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 .
An American soldier who had served nearly two months in a South Korean prison, fled across the heavily armed border into North Korea, U.S. officials said Tuesday, becoming the first American ...
Kangdong concentration camp (also spelled Gangdong) is a reeducation camp in North Korea.The official name of the camp is Kyo-hwa-so No. 4 (Reeducation camp no. 4).. The camp consists of a large prison compound situated between Samdung-ri and the Nam River, in Kangdong-gun, in South Pyongan province of North Korea, about 30 km (19 mi) east of downtown Pyongyang.