Talk:Prisons in North Korea

Life in Prison Camps
Jeong-Kwang Il, who was imprisoned because he was suspected as a spy, testified that he had to admit his crime, which was not true. When Jeong-Kwang Il did not admit to being a spy between North Korea and South Korea, he would be tortured. That was only way that he could survive. He also mentioned that all the prisoners had to take a class for political re-education, where they had to memorise the Ten Principles. They could not go to sleep if they did not memorise them all. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.62.206.2 (talk) 16:54, 5 October 2015 (UTC) See more : http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/16/north-korea-yodok-prison-camp — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.62.206.2 (talk) 18:59, 5 October 2015 (UTC)

Images
This article desperately needs images. But obtaining them is obviously difficult, not to mention licensing. Any suggestions? CometEncke (talk) 14:21, 21 February 2016 (UTC)

Is there any way to increase the map size or decrease the size of the letters so the labels of the names of the camps don’t appear to be cluttered? Dark Brood (talk) 20:53, 26 November 2020 (UTC)

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Possible copyright issues
Just a note to record that 49% of this article (according to WhoColor) was written by User:Superzohar who was indefinite blocked in 2014 for Copyright violations. So if there are any copyright suspicions about any of the text, we should delete it. Rwendland (talk) 11:56, 21 June 2018 (UTC)

Proposed Revisions
Hi there! I'm hoping to revise this article. I'm currently a student at Rice University, and I’m interested in this topic due to my major in Asian Studies, where I have already learned a bit about North Korea. In the US, we hear many rumors and shocking information about the treatment of prisoners in North Korea. I want to explore, from a more academic perspective, what the actual state of things is in North Korea. The article already has some helpful information, but little comes from scholarly sources, from what I can tell. In addition, there is only information about two kinds of prisons and no other sections. I propose the addition of further subsections. For example, treatment/punishment of prisoners while in prison, penal starvation (which I have found a journal article about), and further elaboration on the work the prisoners do as part of being imprisoned. Additionally, according to a comment below, 49% of the article was written by someone who was banned for plagiarizing, so I’d like to look into this and fix it up. Please let me know if you have any thoughts, feedback, or ideas! Please see my User Page for references I'm hoping to incorporate. SSchlhmr (talk) 05:08, 11 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Hi, ! I've moved your post to the bottom, as this is the normal way talk pages are organized.
 * I think your plan sounds great. I agree that the this article should be expanded with information from academic sources. Your list of sources looks particularly well thought out. You can edit the article any time you want. Don't worry about breaking anything, I and plenty of other people are watching this page and will fix it if you make a mistake.
 * As for the plagiarism issue, I checked and those particular edits did not seem to contain any plagiarized content. We have pretty good processes for this, so you don't have to worry about it. – Finnusertop (talk ⋅ contribs) 12:02, 11 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Hello, thanks so much for your help and patience. I've currently been assigned a different article to revise. I hope to return to this one later on! SSchlhmr (talk) 15:38, 28 September 2019 (UTC)

Map size
Hi, I’ve recently been editing this page by adding new camps into the re-education camp section and also adding them into the map but my biggest problem is the map size/letter size. Some of the labels are starting to converge onto one another. I have tried adding Kangyye into the map but had to delete it as it literally shared the exact same space as Tanchon did. You could also say that Sariwon is currently having the most noticeable problem is it is very close to Sinujiu, and Wonsan also is too close to Kangdong and Ryongdam. So does anybody have any solutions? Could they be increasing the map size or decreasing the letter size? Also can somebody explain what is “KP” and the number coming after it mean? (ex. KP-02) Dark Brood (talk) 21:01, 26 November 2020 (UTC)

Not neutral
I’m not saying the north korea prisons are good but wikipedia articles are supposed to be neutral and this isn’t neutral GenZenny (talk) 01:37, 12 October 2022 (UTC)
 * What exactly do you see as non-neutral?
 * Simply mentioning sourced negative information is not enough to make an article non-neutral. Is there any positive information that needs to be added? Meters (talk) 19:17, 16 October 2022 (UTC)