North Korean policy?

[Fidel_Castronaut]

there are no death camps...

In other news, we are at war with Eastasia. We've always been at war with Eastasia.

Taken from wiki, summarising escape from camp 14's survivor and defector Shin Dong-Hyuk (http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shin_Dong-hyuk):

Shin experienced considerable violence in the camp,[8] and witnessed dozens of executions every year.[7] Part of Shin's right middle finger was cut off by his supervisor as punishment for accidentally breaking a sewing machine.[9] He witnessed adult prisoners and children beaten every day,[10][11] and many prisoners dying of starvation, illness, torture and work accidents.[7] He learned to survive by any means, including eating rats, frogs, and insects, and reporting on fellow inmates for rewards. When Shin was 13 years old, he overheard his mother and brother planning an escape attempt. Shin told the custodian of his school, as informing was something he was taught to do from an early age, and he hoped to be rewarded.[1][5]

However, the school custodian took full credit for discovering the plan, and rather than being rewarded, Shin was arrested and guards tortured him for four days to extract more information, believing him to be part of the plan to escape.[1][5] According to Shin, the guards lit a charcoal fire under his back and forced a hook into his skin so that he could not struggle which caused many large scars still visible on his body.[12][13] On 29 November 1996, after approximately seven months spent in a tiny concrete prison cell, he was released and joined by his father, who had also been imprisoned. They were driven back to the main camp wearing blindfolds and their hands tied behind their backs. Camp officials then forced Shin and his father to watch the public executions of Shin's mother and brother; he then understood he had been responsible for the executions.[5][14][15] Shin said that in that moment, at age 13, he thought his mother deserved to die for planning to flee without him and for favoring his brother, but later in life the brutal executions of his mother and brother would haunt him.[1][5]