It takes prison camps, mass suffering, famine, executions, torture, for people to very, very slowly start realizing they are in a problematic system." For 72 years, North Korea has been "extremely ...

Kwon was entrusted with the duty to oversee the cruel experiments on all political prisoners, including watching families suffer." Another woman revealed how she was forced to poison other inmates and ...

A defector who says she was raped in a North Korean prison camp and was a victim of human trafficking in China said most North Korean women who work with brokers have experienced some form of rape.

Soon Ok-lee, a mother and wife, was imprisoned for seven years at one of the North Korean camps. In her 1999 book, Eyes of the Tailless Animals: Prison Memoirs of a North Korean Woman ...

Shin Dong-hyuk was born in one of North Korea's notorious prison camps. He told us how he was tortured, and how he was forced to watch the execution of both his mother and his brother. Your freedom ...

Harden displays photos of Shin’s scars as evidence that he was indeed tortured, adding that on a recent trip to Seoul, he met a former guard who had worked for the political police at four different ...

Satellite images of one of North Korea 's largest political prison camps suggests its inmate population is expanding, Amnesty International said Thursday in a report detailing rape and torture in ...

In apparent attempts to dissuade anyone in the country reaching out to connect with anyone beyond its borders, the government is actively cracking down on those who attempt to talk to those outside ...

That is if you live in North Korea, where the authorities have reportedly cracked down on a specific hairdo and clothes seemingly ... ideological re-education in prison. The offending hairstyle ...

With the help of "citizen cartographers," Google Maps has filled in some of North Korea's streets and prison camps. The WSJ's Evan Ramstad gives a preview of some places the world's most reclusive ...