camp 15 Yodok
about
Camp 15 Yodok is about 145 square miles in size and the only access is through chaebong pass. The camp is surrounded by a 10-14 foot tall electric fence and is surrounded by mountains. There are 2 zones. The total control zone never releases a single prisoner, while the revolutionizing zone does release prisoners after they have served for their crimes. There is a gypsum mine and gold mine.
quotes
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“[The] babies [had] bloated stomachs. [We] cooked snakes and mice to feed these babies and if there was a day that we were able to have a mouse, this was a special diet for us. We had to eat everything alive, every type of meat that we could find; anything that flew, that crawled on the ground. Any grass that grew in the field, we had to eat. That’s the reality of the prison camp.”
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– Kim Young-soon (Testimony before the UN Commission of Inquiry)