Friday, May 1, 2009

North Korea 's Concentration Camps Can Be Seen On Google



From Digital Journal:

Those who have lived to tell the world about Camp 22, located in the bleak northeastern tip of North Korea, can be counted on the fingers of one hand, and all of them are former guards or staff. Incredibly, it's about the size of Los Angeles.
Of all of North Korea’s network of labor camps and detention facilities, large and small, Camp 22 is the most terrible. There are reports of inhuman experiments carried out on men, women, children, and even infants sent there. The BBC reports that North Korea’s system of spying, thought-control, isolation, and terror may have no equal in human history.

That is how Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il kept the secrets of Camp 22 inside its ten-foot wire fences and distinctive blocky guard posts for decades. That changed when satellite photography went public. Since then, Google Earth has revealed the world’s most secret places to armies of amateur “squints.”

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My Comment: A face of North Korea that many of us in the West forget when it comes to talks and negotiations on nuclear agreements and missile limitations.

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