Photo: A satellite image of the barracks and other facilities of Camp 22 at Haengyong in northeastern North Korea. MSNBCFrom The Washington Post:
SEOUL -- Images and accounts of the North Korean gulag become sharper, more harrowing and more accessible with each passing year.
A distillation of testimony from survivors and former guards, newly published by the Korean Bar Association, details the daily lives of 200,000 political prisoners estimated to be in the camps: Eating a diet of mostly corn and salt, they lose their teeth, their gums turn black, their bones weaken and, as they age, they hunch over at the waist. Most work 12- to 15-hour days until they die of malnutrition-related illnesses, usually around the age of 50. Allowed just one set of clothes, they live and die in rags, without soap, socks, underclothes or sanitary napkins.
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My Comment: This is an excellent article from the Washington Post. The interactive map that the Washington Post has set up is very impressive. This story does a good job at exposing both the terrible conditions at the North Korean labor camps, and the State Department's traditional unwillingness to confront it