The prisons are vast and gloomy work camps in which inmates are routinely beaten, starved, executed – or forced to watch family members executed, according to eyewitness accounts.
The deeply secretive dictatorship does not release any information about the size of its labor camps or the conditions inside, but reports from former inmates and human rights organizations reveal a stark portrait of inhumanity in which inmates are forced to work as slaves, routinely tortured, humiliated and starved.
But how does that compare to the horrors of rice pilaf at Gitmo?
Unless we can do something, those women are unlikely to survive their ordeal. God help them. The sainted international community surely doesn't give a damn about their fate and the real horrors of the Pillsbury Nuke Boy's regime.
UPDATE: Although others have written that they are unlikely to got to the gulags reserved for the perhaps 200,000 ordinary North Koreans, since if released before dying they'd be credible witnesses to the prisons.
