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In reply to the discussion: I can understand going to North Korea for shits and giggles [View all]Baobab
(4,667 posts)They are a coveted overseas job - NOT comparable to a North Korean prison or concentration camp.
If you want to know what a North Korean political prisoners camp is like I suggest you watch the videos I just linked to or go to a web site like Rimjingang the first- or some of the other URLs listed below
http://www.asiapress.org/rimjingang/english/index.html (Rimjingang - Journalism by North Koreans living there risking their lives to write about it while still there - really interesting)
Some of the links below are old and the content may have moved - they may require some searching, but do it, highly recommended
http://nkwatch.org
http://nofence.netlive.ne.jp/english/testimony.html
http://en.nknet.org/
http://www.northkoreanrefugees.com
http://north-korea.narod.ru/control_lankov.htm
http://north-korea.narod.ru/propaganda_lankov.htm
http://eng.nkgulag.org/bbs/board.php?bo_table=b_01&wr_id=10
http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/HRC/CoIDPRK/Pages/ReportoftheCommissionofInquiryDPRK.aspx
http://www.hrnk.org/publications/hrnk-publications.php
http://www.eahrnk.org/
http://monthly.chosun.com/client/dataroom/databoardread.asp?idx=12&cPage=2&table=dataroom
http://www.aidanfc.net/a_year_in_pyongyang_p.html
http://hrnk.trycomp.net/
http://digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org/collection/116/north-korea-august-1956-plenum-incident
http://monthly.chosun.com/client/dataroom/databoardread.asp?idx=5