"The Database Centre for North Korean Human Rights (NKDB), a monitoring group in South Korea, has documented hundreds of cases of North Koreans sent to labour camps for “political” crimes such as criticising the government or watching South Korean television shows. Their stories make grim reading. Recently, however, there have been fewer such reports. That is not because the regime is less inclined to torment its own citizens, but because it has become so strict with them that even less information has been trickling out."

Thank you The Economist for this great article on the North Koreans who remain "In the Dark" in North Korea's political prison camps.