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 ...

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.

SEOUL, Nov. 28 (Yonhap) -- Some North Korean defectors who were repatriated from China last year were sent to prison camps in North Korea for being exposed to Christianity, which the regime ...

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 ...

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 ...

Kwon was entrusted with the duty to oversee the cruel experiments on all political prisoners, including watching families ...

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 ...

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 ...