Tag: prisoners
Source: N. Korean official’s UN comments on executions were party-authorized
North Korea's acknowledgment of public executions at a U.N. human rights review in Geneva this November was carefully orchestrated. The admission came from Pak...
North Korea upgrades prison camp amid secrecy concerns
North Korea has renovated facilities at the Paekto-ri political prison camp in Sinuiju to improve health conditions for prisoners. The decision was prompted by...
North Korea boosts foreign currency earnings with prison-made exports to China
North Korean trading companies are expanding their foreign currency-earning activities by exporting contract-manufactured products made with prison labor to China. Recently, a major North...
N. Korea’s political prison camps: Shrinking populations amid tightening control
The populations of North Korea's infamous political prison camps, long criticized as hotbeds of human rights violations, has decreased by about 9,000 inmates compared...
The story of one N. Korean woman’s tragic death in a...
One day in early 2019, a public trial took place in front of the Provincial Performing Troupe Plaza in North Pyongan Province.
That day, five...
Satellite imagery reveals nighttime lights at North Korea’s Camp 22
North Korea's political prison camps - which the regime denies even exist - are referred to by their number, as in Camp XX. According...
Here’s what little we know about North Korea’s Camp 17
The location of Camp 17, a North Korean camp for political prisoners, is regarded as classified information even within the country, Daily NK has...
N. Korea cuts re-education camp sentences to reduce death count
A change in re-education camp regulations last year was aimed at reducing the number of deaths in the camps by returning inmates to society...
N. Korea’s national police agency hands down 4th quarter production quotas...
North Korea's national police agency recently handed down fourth quarter production quotas to reeducation camps under its administration, Daily NK has learned.
Speaking on condition...
Five inmates at political prison camp publicly executed for causing a...
Five inmates at Susong Concentration Camp (otherwise known as Camp No. 25 in Chongjin, North Hamgyong Province) were executed by firing squad in broad...
