Tag: prisons
Photo reveals forced wig manufacturing at N. Korean prison
Daily NK has obtained a photo of a work site at a North Korean detention facility where wigs are manufactured under contract. The photo...
N. Korea orders police to intensify public surveillance under guise of...
North Korea's Ministry of Social Security has ordered local police boxes nationwide to intensify "mass educational activities," a move that signals tighter surveillance of...
N. Korea’s Decree 1013: Kim’s green light for tougher punishments of...
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has approved Decree 1013, a new directive that imposes harsher penalties on repeat offenders, following a proposal from...
Forced repatriations of N. Korean defectors in China continue into this...
Small-scale forced repatriations of North Korean defectors have taken place even after about 200 detectors who were locked up in Chinese prisons were sent...
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...
