North Korea's secret prison camps

Not much of a secret anymore.  North Korea has been designated the #1 country for the persecution of Christians  and  these must be the places they are taken to and never heard from again.  With a new young leader at the helm, the world had high hopes for change, but from the recent cocky statements from the young cock, nothing seems to have changed for the better.

Julian Ryall wring at TheTelegraphUK:
Human rights activists are turning to Google Earth   to identify the vast network of prison camps that dot the North Korean countryside and hold as many as 200,000 people deemed hostile to the regime. 

Rights groups are pushing the United Nations high commissioner for human rights to open an international investigation into Pyongyang's "deplorable" record on its citizens' rights, including a system of political prisons that has operated for more than 50 years.

Pyongyang insists that the camps do not exist and are merely foreign propaganda, but the advent of high-resolution, free images from outer space has disproved that claim.
On January 18, the North Korean Economy Watch website announced that a new camp had been identified alongside an existing detention facility in Kaechon, South Pyongan Province.
Using newly provided Google Earth images, analyst Curtis Melvin was able to conclude that the new camp sits alongside Camp 14 and has a perimeter fence that stretches nearly 13 miles.
The facility was built since the last images of the site were released, in December 2006.........

More here from an article dated June 2009 on the mass graves and labour camps.