North Korea’s prison camps hold about 300,000 people and authorities hold annual mass executions of inmates seen as defiant, a new group formed by defectors said Wednesday. Torture and sexual violence are also rampant at the camps, said An Myong-Chul, a 40-year-old former camp guard who defected to South Korea 10 years ago. “Every year at around this time North Korea executes up to 20 inmates at each camp,” he said at a ceremony to launch a group called the Campaign for North Korean Freedom. Full Story
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