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North Korea: Google Earth Reveals Death Camps in Detail

Written byLee Yoo Eun

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Posted 23 September 2011 15:59 GMT

Kyle Wagner from Gizmodo site wrote a post on one of the most detailed images of the North Korean concentration camps taken by Google Earth. It is estimated that over 200,000 North Korean citizens are imprisoned in the camps under unimaginably harsh conditions.

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