North Korean Prison Camps
August 21, 2013 by staff
North Korean Prison Camps, North Korean defector Shin Dong-hyuk recounts his harrowing experience in prison for the UN Commission of Inquiry.
Seoul: Public executions and torture are daily occurrences in North Korea’s prisons, according to dramatic testimony from former inmates at a UN Commission of Inquiry that opened in South Korea’s capital on Tuesday.
This is the first time that the North’s human rights record has been examined by an expert panel, although the North, now ruled by a third generation of the founding Kim family, denies that it abuses human rights. It refuses to recognise the commission and has denied access to investigators.
Harrowing accounts from defectors now living in South Korea related how guards chopped off a man’s finger, forced inmates to eat frogs and a mother to kill her own baby.
“I had no idea at all … I thought my whole hand was going to be cut off at the wrist, so I felt thankful and grateful that only my finger was cut off,” said Shin Dong-hyuk, punished for dropping a sewing machine.
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