A satellite image taken on May 21, 2002, shows Camp 22, at Haengyong, in northeastern North Korea, near the border with China. The camp has about 50,000 prisoners and is the size of Los Angeles. Guards routinely assault prisoners without fear of punishment, according to former guard An Myeong Chul. "We were taught to look at inmates as pigs," he said. DigitalGlobeFrom MSNBC/Washington Post:
Images, accounts of massive, deadly camps sit on diplomatic back burner.
SEOUL, South Korea - 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: What even our own Secretary of State Clinton labels the North Korean Government as an "unruly child", you just know that North Koreans has been successful in brainwashing outsiders on what is their true intention.
North Korea is not an "unruly child" .... it is a Communist Dictatorship that is brutal and vicious when it comes to maintaining power. Gulags and death camps are just one of the many of it's "playthings".