In one camp. former inmates claim prisoners work in such hard conditions that 20 to 25 percent of the 50.000 prisoners die every year. To leave North Korea without official permission is an act of treason. The Communist regime maintains a series of detention facilities along the border with the Peoples Republic of China for refugees forcibly returned. Pregnant women endure forced abortions or have their infants killed just after birth on the off chance that they were impregnated by Chinese men. Everyone is then interrogated to determine the extent of their exposure to the Free World. literally having the truth beaten out of them. This determines whether the regime sends these refugees to a gulag facing certain death or to a gulag facing likely death. The massive mechanistic prison camp system. combined with the outlawing of immigration. has led many to refer to North Korea as "the worlds largest prison camp." Jasper Becker. former Beijing bureau chief for the South China Morning Post. has estimated that Kim Jong I1 and his father. Kim n Sung. are responsible for killing over 7 million Koreans. 3 million civilians in the Korean war. 3 million by deliberate famine. and at least 1 million more political prisoners either executed or worked to death. Mr.
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