S. Korea 's National Human Rights Commission documenting abuses in North Koreans labor camps . The report is based on the testimony of 278 defectors , who described torture , starvation , deaths . It says some were feared executed , the rest sent to the camps . S. Korea 's refuses to acknowledge their existence , despite National Human Rights Commission reports of 278 inmates . The camps have been used by a year and a half to crush political dissent .
S. Korea 's National Human Rights Commission documenting abuses in North Koreans labor camps . The report is based on the testimony of 278 defectors , who described torture , starvation , deaths . S. Korea 's refuses to acknowledge their existence , despite National Human Rights Commission reports of 278 inmates . The camps have been used by a year and a half to crush political dissent .