[Kyodo: Korea] An estimated 200,000 political prisoners are being held in special camps in North Korea, South Korea"s state-run human rights commission agency said Wednesday. In a report on the human rights situation in North Korea, the National Human Rights Commission also said the political prisoner camps, which have been in place since the late 1950s, once numbered as many as 13 but have been reduced to six at the present through closure and integration.
| How many non-political prisoners? I've read that entire families are swept up to punish a single political prisoner, and that two generations have now been born there, knowing nothing else. As for reducing the number of camps, reduction of number by amalgamation does not imply a reduction in the number of prisoners, merely the reduction in the number of camp commandants. Increased management efficiency is not admirable such cases. |
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