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A bird's eye view of the prisons and palaces of Kim Jong-il's North Korea


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Looking closely at the images of North Korea using the Google Earth web service one can see evidence of not only Prsident Kim Jong-il's lavish lifestyle but also of the state's gulags and prison camps. This image shows Kim Jong-il's Sinuiju house complete with private train station in the bottom right hand corner.


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Kim Jong-il's primary residence, the 'Central Luxury House'


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Another of the Dear Leader's residences features a swimming pool with a slide and a race track (top right)



 
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Taesongsan golf course is the country's only 18-hole course. It is built on an artificial lake featuring another of Kim Jong-il's houses.


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On the same lake you can see Kim Jong-il's yacht moored to a jetty.


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Away from the president's properties Google Earth also reveals a mountain with what seems to be a runway or track running underneath it.


 
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Labour-rehabilitation camps, or kyo-hwa-so, are usually built in a penitentiary style with perimeter walls and guard towers,
and hold populations of up to 10,000 political prisoners, economic criminals, and ordinary criminals.



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The images are so clear that you can see people standing in the grounds of the camp.


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The infamous Camp 22



 
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A guard hut along the border fence of Camp 22.


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Burial mounds


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Also revealed by Google Earth are satellite images of an ostrich farm near Pyongyang.


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...and the Pyongyang chewing gum factory.


 

motormafia

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How can you label everything to Kim Jong Il? These houses can belong to Lee - Lee Kuan Yew or any person, e.g. PRC communist heads. May be they are one of Temasek's secret investments or projects. How would you know what they are?

Unless there is a signboard stating Kim Jong Il's house. :wink::rolleyes:

How do you know that wasn't Ho Jinx's yacht?
 
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North Koreas’ Largest Concentration Camps on Google Earth

The Committee for Human Rights in North Korea estimates that North Korea holds approximately 200,000 people in its system of concentration and detention camps, and that 400,000 people have died in these camps from torture, starvation, disease, and execution. These reports, in the context of estimates that North Korea has allowed between 600,000 and 2,500,000 of its people to starve to death while its government squandered the nation’s resources on weapons and luxuries for its ruling elite, suggest that North Korea’s oppression and politically targeted starvation of its people collectively constitute the world’s greatest ongoing atrocity, and almost certainly the most catastrophic anywhere on earth since the end of the Khmer Rouge regime in 1979.


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The National Security Agency (bowibu) runs most of the camp system. Others are operated by the inmin pohan seong, a/k/a anjeon bu, or Peoples’ Security Agency. Excluding local Anjeonbu and Bowibu offices, most of North Korea’s concentration and labor camps fit into one of the following classifications:

1. The vast kwan-li-so political prison camps.
2. Labor reeducation camps, or kyo-hwa-so.
3. Regional collection and labor-training camps.


This list is certainly not exclusive. Witnesses have described a number of other kyo-hwa-so and regional prisons and camps that I have not yet located. I update this page periodically as I locate additional sites and witnesses confirm that they are what I believe them to be.


 
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Some of those imprisoned at Camps 14 and 18 were once regime officials themselves. In Camp 18, there is a special area set aside for them.



 
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Female Prisoners

There is one nominal exception to the guards’ absolute authority: they are prohibited from having romantic or sexual relations with prisoners. In practice, however, guards routinely rape or coerce female prisoners sexually. If a female prisoner becomes pregnant, the child will be killed through an involuntary abortion, or by infanticide after birth. For detainees who arrive at the camps already pregnant, however, treatments vary; some may even be returned home. KBA 566-68, 245.

Former Camp 14 inmate Kim Yeong-Il claims that at the camp, there was a guest house where party officials from Pyongyang made free sexual use of female prisoners. I found no such guest house in Camp 14, but David Hawk’s report notes this location at Camp 18, across the river. The confusion may be another case of the KBA report conflating the two camps:


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After the women were raped, they were killed to prevent them from bearing witness:
Especially beautiful women suffered the most. It has been known that Kim Byeong-Ha, who was the Bowibu director and set up political prison camps in 1972, selected pretty women and slept with them in an inspection visit to the camps. Then those women were transferred to the director of the 3rd Bureau (Pretrial Examination Bureau) of the Bowibu and used as an experiment subject and killed. [….]

There is a “Cadre Guest House” at No. 14 Political Prison Camp. It is a special building where ministers or deputy ministers from Pyeongyang stay. When senior officials come from Pyeongyang, pretty maidens aged 21 to 25 are selected among female inmates, bathed and then sent to them. After the officials make a sexual plaything of those females, they charge the women with fleeing and kill them to keep secrets. [KBA 165]

 

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Did Bush ordered the invasion of Afghan & Iran based on such maps???? Or did he ordered the invasion anyway & later got topographers to add on the illustrations to justify his action???????
 
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Rare photos of Kim Jong-il's youngest son, Kim Jong-un, released


Rare photos have emerged of Kim Jong-un, the youngest son of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il who seems certain to inherit power in the communist state's second dynastic succession.


By Peter Foster in Beijing

Published: 10:46AM BST 08 Jun 2010

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According to Yonhap News Agency the photo was obtained from an international school in Berne, Switzerland, and taken during Jong-un's school days Photo: EPA


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Kim Jong-un


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Last month a Japanese newspaper published a picture it claimed was Kim Jong-un (let) with his father Photo: EPA


Larking about with classmates and making playful V-signs for the camera, the boy who is now tipped to be the next leader of the hermit dictatorship of North Korea appears not to have a care in the world. These photographs purportedly of Kim Jong-un, the reclusive third son of North Korea's "Dear Leader" Kim Jong-il, were released on Tuesday by South Korea's national Yonhap news agency, providing a unique glimpse into the privileged life of the country's elite.


Taken between 1996 and 2001, while Kim junior was a teenager studying at international school in Bern, Switzerland, the pictures show a grinning Kim at ease with his friends at a time when his countrymen were suffering a man-made famine that killed up to 2 million people. Until now, the only verified picture of Kim Jong-un was a grainy black-and-white snapshot of him as an 11-year-old.

Last month a Japanese newspaper has published an unverified photo of a man it claimed was the elusive heir-apparent pictured as an adult. The pictures, which have not yet been verified by South Korea's National Intelligence Service, could provide another small piece in the puzzle that is Kim Jong-un, who has been kept out of the spotlight despite being groomed for the succession. On Monday, analysts said Kim Jong-un had taken a step closer to power after his uncle, Jang Song-thaek, was promoted to the North's all-powerful National Defence Commission in anticipation of his role as "regent" to the politically inexperienced 27-year-old.

Reports on Kim Jnr's earlier life, pieced together from the recollections of former classmates, say that he was enrolled at two Bern schools as a child of a North Korean embassy employee using the assumed name "Pak-un". He is said to be able to speak good English, as well as French and German and to enjoy the privileges of his birth, on one occasion chauffeuring a school friend to Paris to watch an NBA basketball game. "We were just playing basketball -- now he is going to be a dictator," one friend from his boarding school days told The Washington Post. "I hope he is a good leader, but dictators are usually not that good."

After leaving school in 2001, Kim is believed to have been enrolled in a military academy in Pyongyang in preparation for his designated future role that would see him follow in the footsteps of his father and grandfather, Kim Il-sung, as the absolute ruler of North Korea. More recently, he has been described in reports as overweight, diabetic, and possibly prone to health conditions in the wake of a car accident. Some first-hand insight into the character of Kim Jnr has comes from Kenji Fujimoto, a Japanese sushi chef who worked for Kim Jong-il and described the then young Kim as a "chip off the old block" - a calculating young man who always sought to be in control.

In his memoirs, Mr Fujimoto said it was apparent from an early age that Kim Jong-un would succeed his father, usurping his two older brothers, Jong-chul, who was rejected as weak and "girlish" and Kim Jong-nam, who fell out with his father because of his gambling habit and "wayward lifestyle". "Jong-un will be his father's successor. Everyone used to say it. He looked and acted just like him", the chef wrote, admitting he only dared refer to the young Kim as "Prince". "When he shook hands with me, he stared at me with a vicious look. I cannot forget the look in the Prince's eyes. It's as if he was thinking: This guy is a despicable Japanese'."


 
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Kim Jong-il: the life and times of the leader of North Korea


Kim Jong-il: the life and times of the leader of North Korea


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According to North Korean lore, Kim Jong-il's birth was foretold by a swallow and heralded by a glorious double rainbow and the appearance of a new star. His official biography says he was born on White-Headed Mountain, the highest peak on the Korean peninsula.
On top of the mountain sits the volcanic Heaven Lake.



 
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However, a set of grey and prosaic Soviet Union records say Kim was born in 1941 in the remote Siberian fishing village of Vyatskoye,
where his father was commanding a scraggly army battalion made up of Chinese and Korean exile.
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The mystery surrounding Kim's birth is just one of the legends designed to reinforce his right to the "Mandate of Heaven" to rule over the Democratic Peoples' Republic of Korea - Picture: REUTERS/KCNA



 

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So many killing of innocent victims of North Korea citizens by their dictator.

Sometimes I am wondering where is God???

Did God hear the cries of his people in North Korea???

If God can hear the cries of His people the Jews when they were tortured in Egypt during Moses time, but did God hear the cries and suffering of the people in North Korea???
 
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On the face of it, there seems little reason why 23 million North Koreans should continue to support their "Dear Leader". The country's economy has been devastated since the early 1990s and millions of people live on the edge of famine - Picture: REUTERS/KOREAN NEWS SERVICE



 
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