FreeNK Broadcasting aired a video footage on the 12th originally acquired at the end of last year, of people dressed in winter clothes carrying shovels and hoes one early morning in which the broadcast claims are people under forced labor.
Representative for FreeNK Kim Sung Min revealed “(The people) in this footage are people who were repatriated back to North Korea after being captured by the Chinese police while defecting to China, and prisoners caught in the “labor training corps” for being antisocialist or conducting illegal acts while trading with China.”
According to FreeNK, the footage captures people working at a building construction site carrying mud bricks made from a mixture of mud and rice straw to an upper floor and layering the bricks on top of one another under the directives of a guard.
The original footage was 1 hour and a half long though FreeNK has edited the clip to be a little over 1 minute. As the edited version of the footage does not contain any exposure to facilities of the rodong camp, it does not specifically claim that the people are prisoners of the camp.
The first time a footage exposed North Korea’s labor training camps was in 2003 when an organization secretly uncovered a clip “North Korean activists working for democracy.”
