Tag: prisons
Exclusive: False eyelashes sold in China are assembled in North Korea
Various types of false eyelashes assembled in North Korean prisons are being packaged in China and sold online, Daily NK has learned.
When Daily NK...
Hyesan detention center inmates forced to make fertilizer in bitter cold
Prisoners at a detention center in Hyesan, Yanggang Province, have been forced to make fertilizer for long hours despite the bitter cold, Daily NK...
N. Korea continues to operate nine re-education camps throughout the country
North Korea continues to operate nine re-education camps, where the number of inmates detained for violating the country's law to "eradicate reactionary thought and...
Kim Jong Un reopens political prison camp to house political enemies
A political prison camp originally thought to have been closed has been reopened since North Korean leader Kim Jong Un took power in 2011....
N. Korean defector talks about experience in holding center for forced...
Recently, a large number of North Korean defectors in China were forcibly repatriated and are currently being detained in Ministry of State Security (MSS)-operated...
N. Korean mother and son arrested after nationwide notice put out...
North Korea’s Ministry of State Security recently arrested the descendents of a South Korean prisoner of war who were aimlessly wandering the country by...
N. Korea halts all family visits at prisons across the country
The North Korean government has instructed prisons around the country to halt all family visits and only accept care packages, Daily NK has learned.
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N. Korea prepares for special pardon of reeducation camp inmates on...
North Korean authorities plan to carry out a special pardon of reeducation camp (gyowhaso) prisoners on Sept. 9, which marks the 75th anniversary of...
N. Korea releases family of four in latest pardon
North Korea pardoned a family of four that was locked up at a political prison for violations of emergency quarantine regulations.
A source in North...
N. Korea orders harsher punishments for violators of anti-reactionary thought law
Multiple Daily NK sources have reported that the Central Committee’s Justice Department recently presented a “new corrections policy” to the Ministry of Social Security’s...
