(NZ Herald)
Beatings, rape, starvation and sick public executions are a daily reality for thousands of North Koreans, according to years of witness testimony.
Now, the death of Otto Warmbier has brought fresh scrutiny to the regime's brutal torture camps under leader Kim Jong Un.
The 22-year-old student passed away from mysterious brain damage he suffered while a prisoner in the isolated state.
He succumbed to his horrifying injuries just six days after he was released from North Korea back to his parents in a vegetative state following 17 months in custody. Its believed he spent some of that time in one of Kim's prison camps, where thousands of his citizens are believed to have died.
Warmbier's doctors in Cincinnati said that the student had suffered 'extensive loss of brain tissue in all regions of his brain' consistent with oxygen deprivation for a prolonged period. The isolated North Korean regime is believed to have as many 120,000 political prisoners in its harsh labor camps. Read more