150,000 Languish In North Korean Labor Camps

Report: 150,000 Languish in NKorean Prison Camps -- ABC News/AP

More than 150,000 North Koreans are incarcerated in a Soviet-style, hidden gulag despite the communist government's denial it holds political prisoners, a human rights group reported Tuesday.

The U.S.-based Committee for Human Rights in North Korea said it based its report on interviews with 60 former prisoners and guards. It includes satellite images of what are described as prison labor camps and penitentiaries.

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Update: Committee for Human Rights in North Korea Releases 200 Page Report on North Korea's Vast Political Prison System and Calls for Its Dismantlement -- PR Newswire

WNU Editor: The report from the Committee for Human Rights in North Korea can be read here.

I only briefly scanned this 200+ page report, but what I came across makes me feel that this report is one of the most researched and documented to ever be produced on North Korea's gulag system.