ICC Note:

A new report by Amnesty International has revealed that prison camps in North Korea are continuing to grow. Amnesty International’s reports on North Korean prison camps have documented “rape, infanticide, torture, deliberate starvation, forced labour, and executions” for up to 120,000 people being held in political prison camps. Some of them guilty of no more than being related to people deemed to be a threat to the government. Christians are a large percentage of prisoners in these camps, with an estimated 30,000 to 70,000 Christians serving in labor camps.

11/24/2016 North Korea (Amnesty International) – Satellite imagery of North Korea’s network of political prison camps show its government is continuing to maintain, and even invest, in these repressive facilities. These camps constitute the cornerstone of the country’s large infrastructure dedicated to political repression and social control that enables widespread and systematic human rights abuses. Assessments of the satellite images of two political prison camps – known as kwanliso — collected in May and August show the addition of new guard posts, upgrading of a reported crematorium, and on-going agricultural activities.

Amnesty International conducted research on two camps, kwanliso 15 (also known as Yodok) and kwanliso 25 to assess the status of these camps since the UN Commission of Inquiry’s 2014 report which found the gravity, scale, and nature of human rights violations in North Korea without parallel in the contemporary world.

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