North Korean Prison Camps

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When some people think of North Korea, they think of a secluded country on the Korean Peninsula that houses poverty stricken citizens that worship their supposedly god-like leader. Others think about a communist country that an infamous dictator runs with a failing nuclear weapons program. Yet others tend to think of a nation that sends out fake threats to other countries for fun. While all these statements stand true, they don’t even begin to explain the horrors of this atrocious situation. A wide variety of crimes against humanity have been committed in North Korea ranging from persecution on opinionated grounds such as religion, politics, and gender to knowingly causing prolonged starvation. The focus on North Korea’s nuclear weapons program has caused the world to ignore reports of these inhumane crimes. One of the worst atrocities committed by North Korea is punishment of placing citizens in prison camps that have similarities to and in some cases, compared to as even worse, than the concentration camps run by the Nazis during the holocaust and the camps set up by Pol Pot during his reign in Cambodia.

The prison camps in North Korea have a special structure to them, made to degrade the people in them to animal like standards. In fact, the conditions that the prisoners must live in have gotten harsher under the rule of Kim Jong Un. These prison camps have an unknown official start, however, the first satellite imagery of Camp 16, released in 2007, found what appeared as distinctive fence lines and guard posts around a large area of land that had what looked like a small camp village (Stanton). About 200,000 people are kept prisoner in the camps. They found most of the camps located in the mountains sepa...

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