This report details activity and human rights violations at North Korea’s Political Prison Camp commonly known as Kwan-li-so No.14 or Camp 14.
In this report David Hawk conducts interviews with former prisoners to uncover instances of gender regression and prisoner disappearances.
In this report HRNK and AllSource Analysis provide an updated satellite imagery analysis of Camp 15, the prison-labor facility.
HRNK and AllSource Analysis, Inc. may have found evidence of public execution by anti-aircraft machine guns.
This report provides an account of the economic role of illicit activities and evidence of a growing market economy in North Korea.
David Hawk interprets reports of changes in North Korea’s political prison camps in his most recent report, North Korea’s Hidden Gulag: Interpreting Reports of Changes in the Prison Camps. Please view the press release here.
The newest version of Coercion, Control, Surveillance, and Punishment: An Examination of the North Korea Police State by Ken Gause, updated on May 24, 2013.
Through an analysis of North Korea’s three main security agencies, this report suggests that the internal security apparatus, built under Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il, will continue to be a key element of Kim Jong-un’s political control.
Based on extensive interviews with over 60 defectors and more than 40 satellite photos of North Korean political prisoner camps, the report calls for the dismantlement of the vast North Korean gulag system in which 150,000 to 200,000 are incarcerated.