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April 10th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda The report says the camp system was initially modelled in the 1950s on the Soviet gulag, to punish “wrong thinkers” and those belonging to the “wrong political class” or religious persuasion.
It cites estimates from North Korean state security agency officials who defected to South Korea that the camp system holds between 150,000 and 200,000 people – out of a total population of around 24 million. It urges North Korea to allow the International Committee of the Red Cross access, and to dismantle the camps.
The 200-page report described different kinds of detention facilities, including penal labour colonies where it says political detainees are imprisoned without judicial process for mostly lifetime sentences in mining, logging or agricultural enterprises.
The labour colonies are enclosed behind barbed wires and electrified fences, mainly in the north and north central mountains of the country, the report says, alleging high rates of death in detention due to systemic mistreatment, torture, execution and malnutrition.
The report provides precise geographical locations of where it claims the political prison camps are. It says former prisoners were able to identify their former barrack and houses, work sites, execution grounds and other landmarks in the camps via imagery available through Google Earth.
The committee says the report’s findings contradict a December 2009 statement by North Korea to the United Nations Human Rights Council that the political prisoner camps do not exist.
Greg Scarlatoiu, the committee’s executive director, said that more than 30,000 North Korean defectors have now fled the country – up from just 3,000 a decade ago – so Pyongyang cannot hide the harsh reality of its political prison camps.
Source: AP
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