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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.” ...

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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 ...

including people who'd spent time in North Korean prison camps and experts. Kim Kwang-il, a 48-year-old man who spent two years in a prison in North Korea, defected to South Korea in February ...

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 ...