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 ...

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 ...

It actively spies on its citizens through mass surveillance programmes, and curtails the information that North Koreans have about their country ... could be sent to a reform facility or political ...

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 ...

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Crimes against humanity depicted in a series of illustrations reminiscent of the Holocaust.

Up to 200,000 North Koreans are being held in its sprawling ... held in horrific conditions in six sprawling political prison camps, including the notorious Yodok facility.” ...

More than 200,000 men, women and children are held in the camps Many are hidden in mountains and valleys South Korean government sending religious leaders on sortie to North Korea tomorrow and ...

go to a political prison camp, or worse, they will be executed in front of the people," North Korean defector and researcher, Pak Yusung, told ABC News. Ryu Seong-hyeon, who defected to South ...

He spent more than a year in a North Korean prison after being sentenced to 15 years of prison and hard labor for allegedly stealing a political propaganda poster from his Pyongyang hotel in ...

go to a political prison camp, or worse, they will be executed in front of the people," North Korean defector Pak Yusung told ABC News.