Amnesty International estimates that 200,000 political prisoners are imprisoned today in the camps of North Korea.

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"Conflict Kitchen is a take-out restaurant that only serves cuisine from countries with which the United States is in conflict." AM ON THE NEXT PLANE TO PITTSBURGH, THIS IS THE BEST IDEA EVER, WAIT SERIOUSLY SOMEBODY SHOULD DO THIS IN CAMBERVILLE, BUT UNTIL THEN. Right now, it's Iranian cuisine; before that, they've also done Afghan and Venezuelan cuisine.

Edited extract from Escape From Camp 14, by Blaine Harden.

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North Korea has warned of retaliation after the US scrapped food aid over its rocket launch, raising fears of a new nuclear test, as China reportedly suspended a refugee deal with its wayward ally.
In a defiant statement late Tuesday, the nuclear-armed North said it was no longer bound by a bilateral agreement to halt testing of nuclear weapons and long-range missiles after Washington suspended much-needed food aid.
"We have thus become able to take necessary retaliatory measures, free from the agreement," its foreign ministry said, accusing Washington of hostile acts.

An American tourist traveling from Beijing, China to Pyongyang, North Korea pointed his camera out the train window to capture this rare 1-hour-long look at what North Korea looks like on the interior.

This was a propaganda tour that brings tourists to the country’s showcase cities and most fertile regions. [...] I was mostly allowed to film openly because, again, it was of the best areas with the better fed and dressed elite population that the NK government wants the outside world to see — which is poor, yet not much worse off than Eastern Europe or China was in the late 1970′s. Don’t be fooled though, these images are not representative of most of North Korea. Look for hidden videos smuggled out to see how too many North Koreans live, with oppression, famine, orphans, and not to mention the 200,000 political victims living in soviet style Gulag camps.

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