Olivia Enos, Forbes: The Need To Develop Policies To End North Korea's Nazi-like Prison Camps
How bad are the conditions inside North Korea’s political prison camps? Holocaust survivor and former judge at the International Court of Justice, Thomas Buergenthal, says that he believes that they are as bad, possibly even worse, than concentration camps of Nazi Germany. North Korean political prison camps, which contain an estimated 120,000 individuals today, are among the worst, but not the only severe human rights abuses committed by North Korea.
Just this past week, the U.S. House of Representatives heard testimony from two North Korean refugees, Hyeona Ji and Han Ga Hee, and three experts on human rights challenges in North Korea, including the former Special Envoy for North Korean Human Rights, Robert King.
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Update: North Korea's Prisons 'As Terrible Or Even Worse' Than Nazi Camps (NPR)
WNU Editor: I would not call these prisons Nazi-like concentration camps. The Nazis focused on eliminating ethnic and "undesirable" groups. The North Korean political prison system follows the Soviet gulag model .... squeeze every economic benefit out of your prisoner until they are dead.
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