Incredible new photos show the North Korean prison camp that’s so big it’s visible from SPACE
Super clear space images expose true scale of Kim Jong-un’s rapidly expanding Nazi style death camp
THESE extraordinary new satellite images just show how paranoid Kim Jong-un is becoming - with thousands more locked up since he took over power from his dad five years ago.
A human rights group have compared new images with older ones and used testimonies from ex-prisoners - many ordinary people desperate to escape the nightmare world of Kim's weirdo regime.
The startlingly clear images reveal gallows, electric fences and huge CREMATORIUMS.
And the most notorious of them all, Camp 25, has doubled in size in just over five years, according to the Committee for Human Rights in North Korea (HRNK).
HRNK executive director Greg Scarlatoiu said: "Our satellite imagery analysis of Camp No. 25 and other such unlawful detention facilities appears to confirm the sustained, if not increased importance of the use of forced labour under Kim Jong-un.”
Mr Scarlatoiu said Kim Jong-un’s paranoid regime has intensified its crackdown on attempted defections by top officials.
It has also banged up civilians trying to flee refugees along with family members and friends.
This comes after new Amnesty International footage emerged showing how two North Korean notorious political prison camps, known as kwanliso, are being upgraded with new facilities - including a bigger crematorium to hide the bodies of those who have died at the hand of the regime.
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The regime, led by Kim Jon-Ung, have repeatedly said the "hellish" camps don't exist, but have photographed the vast network which is said to hold thousands of people and is visible from space.
They conducted research on kwanliso 15 and kwanliso 25, just two of the camps which hold men, women and children - most of whom have committed no crimes but are being punished through guilt by association as family of those deemed threatening by the regime.
The photos show new guard posts, the upgrading of a reported crematorium and on-going agricultural activities.
Micah Farfour, Amnesty International's imagery analyst, said: "Taken together, the imagery we've analysed is consistent with our prior findings of forced labour and detention in North Korea's kwanliso, and the physical infrastructure the government uses to commit atrocities are in working order.
"North Korea has consistently denied access to human rights observers, researchers, and others, hampering investigation into the abuses committed in the camps and the rest of the country.
"However, the infrastructure required to commit the abuses documented by Amnesty International, the Commission, and others is so massive as to be observable from space."
North Koreans who have escaped from the regime describe unimaginable horrors, including rape, torture and suicides.
A former prison guard at Kwanliso 16, the largest political prison camp in North Korea, describes detainees being forced to dig their own graves and women being raped by visiting officials and then disappearing.
He said: "After a night of 'servicing' the officials, the women had to die because the secret could not get out. This happens at most of the political prison camps."
Many of the prisoners die of malnutrition and overwork in dangerous conditions.
A 2014 UN report detailed rights abuses in North Korea by a "state that does not have any parallel in the contemporary world".
It said: "These crimes against humanity entail extermination, murder, enslavement, torture, imprisonment, rape, forced abortions and other sexual violence, persecution on political, religious, racial and gender grounds, the forcible transfer of populations, the enforced disappearance of persons and the inhumane act of knowingly causing prolonged starvation."
Meanwhile a series of bizarre pictures give a unique glimpse into ordinary life in Stalinist hermit state North Korea for those not yet sent to camps.
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