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I don't see how it's too much different...and we are forcing a war with Iraq instead of with them?? The picture is a satellite image of the camps. Jan. 15 — In the far north of North Korea, in remote locations not far from the borders with China and Russia, a gulag not unlike the worst labor camps built by Mao and Stalin in the last century holds some 200,000 men, women and children accused of political crimes. A month-long investigation by NBC News, including interviews with former prisoners, guards and U.S. and South Korean officials, revealed the horrifying conditions these people must endure — conditions that shock even those North Koreans accustomed to the near-famine conditions of Kim Jong Il’s realm. - At one camp, Camp 22 in Haengyong, some 50,000 prisoners toil each day in conditions that U.S. officials and former inmates say results in the death of 20 to 25% of the prison population every year. - Products made by prison laborers may wind up on U.S. store shelves, having been “washed” first through Chinese companies that serve as intermediaries. - Entire families, including grandchildren, are incarcerated for even the most bland political statements. - Forced abortions are carried out on pregnant women so that another generation of political dissidents will be “eradicated.” - Inmates are used as human guinea pigs for testing biological and chemical agents, according to both former inmates and U.S. officials...
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