NEWSMAX: Amnesty International says new satellite images and testimony from a former inmate show North Korea is holding about 200,000 people in its huge network of political prison camps where torture is rampant and conditions near slavery.
The human rights group based in London released on Wednesday recent satellite photos which show four of six camps located in the impoverished country’s South Pyongan, South Hamkyung and North Hamkyung provinces.
North Korea has long been regarded as having one of the world’s worst human rights records, but it rejects outside criticism and denies the existence of prison camps… (more)
EDITOR:
The 200,000 represents a bit less than one percent of North Korea’s 23,479,088 estimated population.
“According to the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) 7,225,800 people at yearend 2009 were on probation, in jail or prison, or on parole — about 3.1% of adults in the U.S. resident population.
Hmmm.
