"Hell holes": North Korea's secret prison camps

Amnesty International has published satellite imagery and new testimony that shed light on the horrific conditions in North Korea's network of political prison camps, which hold an estimated 200,000 people.

The images reveal the location, size and conditions inside the camps. Amnesty International spoke to a number of people, including former inmates from the political prison camp at Yodok as well as guards in other political prison camps, to obtain information about life in the camps.

According to former detainees at the political prison camp at Yodok, prisoners are forced to work in conditions approaching slavery and are frequently subjected to torture and other cruel, inhumane, and degrading treatment. All the detainees at Yodok have witnessed public executions.

"North Korea can no longer deny the undeniable. For decades the authorities have refused to admit to the existence of mass political prison camps," said Sam Zarifi, Amnesty International Asia Pacific Director.

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[Leaveatrailoflies]

I am sorry, I am not trying to sound immature, but this country should be invaded. Government officials should be thrown in their own "Hell Holes."

[shcoke2]

@mplsmn1975 But most of the food and supplies ended up on the plate of the top communist officials and very little actually gets to the suffering people.... How sad.... The dictatorship regime CANNOT be TRUSTED...

[btnspl]

Please people, stop believing this evil US propaganda. This video does not prove ANYTHING at all. A couple of satellite images does not show anything, this could be just anything. Please look up proper info instead of this piece of rubbish.

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@Juliusabcd

Really? Sorry man but you clearly know nothing about the absolute insanity of the Kim Jong Family or North Korea...

This is extremely probable and fitting with the worlds least free country.

There is no reason to doubt any of this.

[modestiny85]

i hate how other governments use amnesty intermational for facts, but when AI criticizes their government they call it propaganda.

[t5grrr]

@Juliusabcd Go back to bed DPRK shill. Tell your sister who is in one of these camps that they are not real.

[davisoneill]

@LuckyDukeSeven

And who pays for NASA? As the saying goes, he who pays the piper calls the tune...

[davisoneill]

@LuckyDukeSeven

If they know the co-ordinates, then there would be no difficulty in finding them.

[LuckyDukeSeven]

@davisoneill

NASA. The images are actually from a world-wide database of images that the Russians, Americans and Chinese all have. The problem is locating the camps in such a large landmass. They have, and the coordinates are available online.

[Juliusabcd]

nice US propaganda. there is NO real evidence that these camps exist. and if the north korean government is really as bad as "they" say, how could they be so dumb and ever let anyone, who has seen or been in one of these "camps" escape the country? come on, this is just bullshit. how can so many people believe this?

[davisoneill]

And who gave AI these satellite images??? Did AI ever question the motivations of those supplying the images? Or if they are in any way real?