Kim regime expands secret prison camp for women forcibly returned from China

[davidpdx]

The communist regime in North Korea has been expanding space for women in its notorious prison labor camps to accommodate the number of Koreans forcibly returned from China, where they had sought the economic means to survive.

The atrocities that await inmates in the North Korean gulag include forced labor, savage beatings, starvation, episodic executions and other crimes against humanity, according to a new report by the Committee for Human Rights in North Korea (CHRNK), a Washington-based non-profit group.

The most recent changes in North Korea’s remote and extensive secret prison network is documented in The Hidden Gulag IV, an update of the Committee’s decade-long examination of the North Korean system, published on Friday. The report is buttressed by a separate analysis of satellite photographs and based on interviews with inmates who endured stays in the horrific system and subsequently escaped to South Korea after their release.

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The women are imprisoned for the “crime” of leaving North Korea in the first place, Hawk said, and their return by Chinese authorities is itself considered by the Committee to be a contravention of international humanitarian law, as the women face certain punishment for something normally considered a human right in leaving North Korea in the first place.

more:

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/09/19/kim-regime-expands-secret-prison-camp-for-women-forcibly-returned-from-china/

I know this is a Fox News link and normally I wouldn't read Fox, but a check reveals no other sources for this same story. It is worthwhile read regardless of the source as what is going on in North Korea is a tragedy.

[snagglepuss]

1. The Chinese are almost worst for sending people back as they aren't under threat

from NK. What a horrific nightmare. Those poor poor women.

[murielm99]

2. My husband maintains that the entire

country is a giant prison camp.

[yeoman6987]

3. I don't believe that's far from the truth

With all the worrying about Iran and other places, I can't believe North Korea always gets a pass. Oh sure an article from time to time appears but besides a little bit of complaining, North Korea gets away with a ton that other countries wouldn't.