Kwanriso 15 Yodŏk Concentration Camp

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Yodŏk (also romanized Yodeok, Yodok, or Yoduk) is a concentration camp in North Korea. It is located in Yodŏk-gun County in South Hamgyong Province. The official name is Kwan-li-so (reeducation center) No. 15. In the 1990s, an estimated 30,000 prisoners were in the lifetime area, and around 16,500 prisoners in the revolutionizing zone (many of them family members of prisoners and people repatriated from Japan).

The camp is used to isolate people seen as hostile to the regime for lifetime from society, punish them for political misdemeanors, and exploit them with hard labor, torture, starvation and death.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yodok_concentration_camp
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Coordinates:   39°40'29"N   126°50'54"E

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