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North Korea expanding gulag network, satellite images show

National Post Staff | Feb 26, 2013 8:45 PM ET

A newly released analysis of satellite imagery paints a bleak picture of North Korea’s growing gulag network.

The North’s Labour Camp No. 25, which makes up part of what campaigners call “one of the worst, but least understood and reported, human rights situations in the world,” appears to be in the midst of a dramatic expansion.

According to the Committee of Human Rights in North Korea, the camp grew at least 72% since 2003. The number of perimeter guard posts jumped from 20 in 2003 to 43 by 2010.

The group believes the gulag network expansion may be a response to purges in the lead up to Kim Jong-un’s succession.

Direct information on North Korea’s forced labour camps is hard to come by, but human rights abuses have been well-documented by defectors.

After escaping, Shin Dong-hyuk equated his experience with surviving a camp in Hitler’s Germany.

“People think the Holocaust is in the past, but it is still very much a reality,” Dong-hyk told Agence France-Presse. “It is still going on in North Korea.”

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