Camps Overview
If you happen to commit one of North Korea's infinite political crimes you and three generations of your extended family will most likely be sent to one of the D.P.R.K's many prison camps, hidden in the vast interior of North Korea. Literal resurrections of soviet-era concentration camps. Here men, women, and children are starved, beaten, and killed by guards for amusement. They are no longer treated as humans, they are not even treated as animals. Out of the 200,000+ citizens in these camps, less than 20 have successfully escaped, their stories are horrifying, "Children in the camps scavenged constantly for food, eating rats, insects, human remains, and undigested kernels of corn they found in cow dung" (Dong-hyuk) Of course, the D.P.R.K government denies the very existence of these camps. Former guard Ahn Myong-chol describes the conditions in the camp as harsh and life-threatening. He recalls the shock he felt upon his first arrival at the camp, where he likened the prisoners to walking skeletons, dwarfs, and cripples in rags. This is a possibly worse situation than the that of The Holocaust. (The Hidden Gulag, Hawk)