Amnesty International: North Korea's Death Camps Are Expanding

Raped By Officials Then Executed So They Stay Silent: Horrific Secrets Of North Korea's Gulags Revealed - And The Satellite Images Which Prove Secret Camps Are Still Growing -- Daily Mail

* Maps show development of two of country’s largest political prison camps kwanliso, '15' and '16'
* Camp 16, in North Hamgyong province, is 215 square miles and has seen an increase in prisoners, Amnesty said
* Hundreds of thousands of people are detained in political prison camps which are still growing
* Relatives detained as collective punishment known as 'guilt-by-association'

A former security guard at the largest political prison camp in North Korea has spoken out for the first time about the rape and murder of female inmates at the facility.

Mr Lee, a former security official at Camp 16 in the 1980s and 1990s, revealed the horror of daily life for prisoners at the site near Hwaseong in North Hamgyong province, which is approximately 215 square miles.

He broke his silence to tell Amnesty International, which is banned in the Communist country, about the methods used to execute prisoners incarcerated in the Soviet-style, hidden 'gulags'.

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