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Panel Reveals Chilling Details From Camps in N. Korea

Three international judges have been digging into conditions at North Korea's infamous labor camps, and one of them gives a damning assessment to the Washington Post: "I believe that the conditions in the [North] Korean prison camps are as terrible, or even worse, than those I saw and experienced in my youth in these Nazi camps and in my long professional career in the human rights field," says Thomas Buergenthal, who survived camps in Auschwitz and Sachsenhausen in his youth. 

Buergenthal is one of three jurists who've been interviewing former prisoners and guards, resulting in a blistering new report on behalf of the International Bar Association. The panel recommends that Kim Jong Un and other regime officials be brought up on war crimes charges at the International Criminal Court.

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