Satellite Images of North Korea Prison Camps

Satellite Images of North Korea Prison Camps Find 200,000 Living as Slaves

No one really knows how bad it is, but it’s much worse than I thought possible. Piecing together information from satellite images and eye witness accounts, Amnesty International suspects that the horrific concentration camps in North Korea are growing. Some 200,000 people live as slaves – enduring starvation, torture, and rape while performing hard labor. Many die every year, only to be replaced by fresh bodies. Of those that survive, few will ever be released. Deemed ‘prisoners’, the victims of North Korea’s political pogroms are interned for the smallest criticisms of the regime of Kim Jong-Il, and when they are carried away their extended families are rounded up as well. This is not genocide, it’s not a war crime, it’s an unending consequence of North Korea’s authoritarian government. And it’s been getting worse for the last decade. Amnesty International’s satellite research shows these slave camp expanding, their populations swelling with ‘criminals’ as the general population starves inside its borders and refugees who are caught trying to leave North Korea are executed…or sent to these gulags. Sixty years ago the world was embroiled in a global war that saw some of the worst crimes against humanity we had ever experienced. Today, the concentration camp lives on in North Korea. Will this evil still be with us another sixty years from now? Despite all my hope about the future, a voice inside me says ‘yes’…I can’t believe this is still happening.


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I really think China and South Korea should ally and work with North Korean generals to overthrow the dictatorship. Part of that would include amensty and South Korea reuniting the country.
Poverty and malnutrition is so bad there that North Koreans are a foot smaller than modern South Koreans and the IQ levels of the few North Koreans who have managed to escape are lower because of improper youth nutrition.

I agree SS109, but we have to be a part of it... But since we have a feckless leader...

Dear Prez.
Get off the golf course, & campain trail, STOP wasting our money on your parties.
oblama, and sent in our HEROES!
1st get them out of Germany, (good place to save millions) and move our Lybia sources into Syria.
BE a LEADER you feckless, lying Prez. Guess the World it's the "community" your used to...


But instead we'll get "You have no idea how hard it is to be me!" STHU! Wussy!

We are almost out of Iraq so maybe we could help. And actually allying with China militarily might be a good learning experience for both countries.

Yesterday they locked up a 90 year old Ukranian man who had worked at a concentration camp while we can't do anything about the current evil going on right now.

No offense but our prisons have their own problems. I watched a program (I cannot remember if it was the history/science channel or MSNBC) but in our supermax prisons we put people in confinement for years with no contact and it drives them crazy. That is cruel and unusual. I will try to find the program. I strongly believe that prisons are not to torture people they already have lost their freedom.

Sometimes it becomes about power.

Here is an article but from what I saw if you end up in solitary you are there for at least 6 months to a year (most times more) and have to earn privileges as simple as tv. They just pace and go nuts and if you don't do what you are told they just add more and more time. this program was bone chilling. I was shocked.

http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2010/03/22/s ... us-prisons

That was really depressing to watch.

I guess the North Korean people can't launch their own revolt as we are seeing in the Middle East? I'm assuming North Korea just has to much police plus a huge military.

Getting involved with China in this is an appallingly bad idea. Do you think for one nanosecond that our goals for Korea would align with Chinas? Furthermore when was the last time our meddling didn't produce more problems then it intended to correct?

I don't think we ever get involved in anything for purely humanitarian reasons.

And who are the people who are put into solitary for years CG? What are their realistic chances of survival in the general population? Do we allow the likes of the Unabomber to walk around? How about the inmates who have murdered repeatedly while incarcerated for life without parole? Remember what happened to Jeff Dahmer? What other alternative exists for the likes of a Vaughn Orrin?