Survivors describe starvation, torture
(NEWSER) - A South Korean human rights group has released the most detailed report yet on the horrific conditions in North Korea's labor camps, which are believed to hold up to 200,000 political prisoners. The report, based on interviews with hundreds of survivors who escaped to the South, tells of widespread starvation, incredibly brutal working conditions, and torture methods prisoners called the "Flying Jet," the “Motorcycle” and “Pumping," the Washington Post reports. The bodies of the many who died from disease, starvation, or overwork were burned and used for fertilizer, one survivor testified. More»
