[quote]A rights group has published satellite images of what it says are North Korea's political prison camps, saying they appear to be growing in size.
In a linked report, Amnesty International also provides new witness testimony to shed light on the conditions in the camps.
The document details accounts of torture, starvation and mass executions of political inmates.
Amnesty has urged the secretive state to immediately close all the camps.
It also calls on Pyongyang to publicly admit the existence of the camps.
The North Korean government - which has denied the existence of mass political prison camps - has not publicly commented on the report's findings.
'Eating rats'
The new images show four of the six camps occupying huge areas of land in vast wilderness sites in the provinces of South Pyongan, South Hamkyung and North Hamkyung, Amnesty says.
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A comparison of the latest pictures with satellite imagery from 2001 indicates "a significant increase in the scale of the camps", it adds.
"These are places out of sight of the rest of the world, where almost the entire range of human rights protections that international law has tried to set up for last 60 years are ignored," said Sam Zarifi, Amnesty's Asia Pacific director.
"As North Korea seems to be moving towards a new leader in Kim Jong-un and a period of political instability, the big worry is that the prison camps appear to be growing in size."
Amnesty says its report is also based on testimony from 15 former inmates and prison guards and a number of other people.
The former prisoners at one camp at Yodok said they were forced to work in conditions approaching slavery and were frequently subjected to torture and inhumane treatment.
Kim, a former prisoner in Kwanliso 15 at Yodok, says: "Everyone in Kwanliso witnessed executions. All those who tried to escape were caught. They were interrogated for two to three months and then executed."
Amnesty also says it has been told of several accounts of people in the camps eating rats or picking corn kernels out of animal waste purely to survive amid severe food shortages.
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[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-13272198[/url]
:smithicide:
Bin Laden is dead. Best Korea's turn.
And not the entire country obviously. The regime. Kim and his krew needs to be removed and the entire country built up from the ground.
Obama Kills north Korea
AMERICA!
FUCK YEAH!
[QUOTE]Amnesty has urged the secretive state to immediately close all the camps.[/QUOTE]
"Oh [I]fine.[/I]"
I would like to know why. Is there some sort of underground revolt being planned?
[QUOTE=ThatHippyMan;29600813]I would like to know why. Is there some sort of underground revolt being planned?[/QUOTE]
Wait let me call Kim
[QUOTE=Ed Miliband;29600823]Wait let me call Kim[/QUOTE]
He's been ignoring my calls recently. Tell him I want Dead Rising 2 back.
[QUOTE=ThatHippyMan;29600864]He's been ignoring my calls recently. Tell him I want Dead Rising 2 back.[/QUOTE]
you'd think he'd hear the only phone in the country ringing
[QUOTE=ThatHippyMan;29600813]I would like to know why. Is there some sort of underground revolt being planned?[/QUOTE]
political instability and paranoia probably
they want no chance of any revolt when they are weakest
even though this might exacerbate problems for them
[QUOTE=HumanAbyss;29601190]you'd think he'd hear the only phone in the country ringing[/QUOTE]
He hears it, but he can't reach it, even when he stands on his tippy toes.
His heir apparent son is too busy playing video games to care.
Their "great leader" can only stay in power by using force and propaganda. He's living in a fantasy world.
Someone on this forum once said" No one wants to shape poop."
Probably true, but we should at least assassinate Kim Jong Il or whatever the fuck his name is. If Obama can order Navy SEALs to kill Osama, then I'm sure he can order them to kill Kim. Just neutralize their shitty, Cold War era anti-air weapons, missile trucks, and RADAR. Then send the attack helicopters in.
Better get in my armored, Arizona desert bunker before all the dumbs drop.
[QUOTE=cqbcat;29601742]Their "great leader" can only stay in power by using force and propaganda. He's living in a fantasy world.
Someone on this forum once said" No one wants to shape poop."
Probably true, but we should at least assassinate Kim Jong Il or whatever the fuck his name is. If Obama can order Navy SEALs to kill Osama, then I'm sure he can order them to kill Kim. Just neutralize their shitty, Cold War era anti-air weapons, missile trucks, and RADAR. Then send the attack helicopters in.
Better get in my armored, Arizona desert bunker before all the dumbs drop.[/QUOTE]
The US and North Korea aren't openly in an actual war, so assassinating the leader of a country isn't in their best interests.
Growing prison camps?
More like growing numbers of internal resistance soldiers.
This sounds horrible. If it's as bad as the reports say, then I would expect images similar to those of the former Nazi concentration camps (everyone being skin and bones). Hopefully the world will be able to gather more evidence of these camps soon and bring to light the suffering of the people of North Korea.
Just out of my curiosity I tried to locate the camps on google maps, but was unable to find them. It'd be a lot easier to understand the comparison between the images mentioned in the article if they actually showed both of the images for the reader to compare to. Has anyone else had luck finding them?
I'll wager it's because of the inevitable handover of power.
[QUOTE=Pr0vologne;29602653]I would expect images similar to those of the former Nazi concentration camps (everyone being skin and bones). [/QUOTE]
That's what most North Koreans are like, actually. I remember reading a RAND Corp. report for the DoD that estimated that around 30% of males aged for military service were actually too retarded (due to malnutrition) to be able to actually fight.
[QUOTE=Contag;29601353]He hears it, but he can't reach it, even when he stands on his tippy toes.
His heir apparent son is too busy playing video games to care.[/QUOTE]
[i]My[/i] video games.
American propaganda, everyone go home.
[QUOTE=demoguy08;29600638]Bin Laden is dead. Best Korea's turn.
And not the entire country obviously. The regime. Kim and his krew needs to be removed and the entire country built up from the ground.[/QUOTE]
Fock Ru Americunt dog
[QUOTE=Kim_Jong_il;29604163]Fock Ru Americunt dog[/QUOTE]
Fucking capitolists trying to destroy the great worker's paradise.
[QUOTE=Gaza Pen Pal;29604136]American propaganda, everyone go home.[/QUOTE]
you're dumb
[QUOTE=SomeDumbShit;29602391]The US and North Korea aren't openly in an actual war, so assassinating the leader of a country isn't in their best interests.[/QUOTE]
I'm pretty sure Kim being dead is in a lot of countries interest. If only they didn't have nukes. Although, I guess getting into another real fight would be bad in a lot of ways, but still, fuck Kim.
[QUOTE=Pr0vologne;29602653]This sounds horrible. If it's as bad as the reports say, then I would expect images similar to those of the former Nazi concentration camps (everyone being skin and bones). Hopefully the world will be able to gather more evidence of these camps soon and bring to light the suffering of the people of North Korea.
Just out of my curiosity I tried to locate the camps on google maps, but was unable to find them. It'd be a lot easier to understand the comparison between the images mentioned in the article if they actually showed both of the images for the reader to compare to. Has anyone else had luck finding them?[/QUOTE]
iv heard stories of children seeking out rat shit to pick corn kernels out to eat
yea its really fucking bad, and everyone knows it
but its a delicate situation that cant be solved with the snap of the fingers either
[editline]4th May 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=Chicken_Chaser;29604686]I'm pretty sure Kim being dead is in a lot of countries interest. If only they didn't have nukes. Although, I guess getting into another real fight would be bad in a lot of ways, but still, fuck Kim.[/QUOTE]
killing ol kim creates a power vacuum and could start a civil war in north korea
this isnt in anyones best interest, especially chinas since they could be getting millions of refugees flooding the border
thats why china always plays peacekeeper whenever tensions rise between the koreas, they dont like the north, but its in their best interests at the time to keep the status quo
[QUOTE=yawmwen;29604729]thats why china always plays peacekeeper whenever tensions rise between the koreas, they dont like the north, but its in their best interests at the time to keep the status quo[/QUOTE]
China is like the older brother trying to take care of the younger brother (NK) after Daddy died (USSR)
[QUOTE=Tuskin;29604922]China is like the older brother trying to take care of the younger brother (NK) after Daddy died (USSR)[/QUOTE]
so whos mom .?
If the people who aren't in the prisons don't have any food, what the hell are they doing with them?
[QUOTE=Dr.C;29605555]If the people who aren't in the prisons don't have any food, what the hell are they doing with them?[/QUOTE]
They lock them up and force them to watch American reality TV shows.
It's a dual punishment, because allows them to see how much better off Americans are, and because reality TV shows are garbage.
[QUOTE=cqbcat;29601742]Their "great leader" can only stay in power by using force and propaganda. He's living in a fantasy world.
Someone on this forum once said" No one wants to shape poop."
Probably true, but we should at least assassinate Kim Jong Il or whatever the fuck his name is. If Obama can order Navy SEALs to kill Osama, then I'm sure he can order them to kill Kim. Just neutralize their shitty, Cold War era anti-air weapons, missile trucks, and RADAR. Then send the attack helicopters in.
Better get in my armored, Arizona desert bunker before all the dumbs drop.[/QUOTE]
Lol "send the attack helicopters in."
NK is a fortress that will be tough to crack should it come to that.
[QUOTE=cqbcat;29601742]Their "great leader" can only stay in power by using force and propaganda. He's living in a fantasy world.
Someone on this forum once said" No one wants to shape poop."
Probably true, but we should at least assassinate Kim Jong Il or whatever the fuck his name is. If Obama can order Navy SEALs to kill Osama, then I'm sure he can order them to kill Kim. Just neutralize their shitty, Cold War era anti-air weapons, missile trucks, and RADAR. Then send the attack helicopters in.
Better get in my armored, Arizona desert bunker before all the dumbs drop.[/QUOTE]
One does not simply fly into North Korea.
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