When some people think of North Korea, they think of an isolated country on the Korean Peninsula that is home to poverty-stricken citizens who worship their supposedly divine leader. Others think of a communist country ruled by an infamous dictator and with a failing nuclear weapons program. Still others tend to think of a nation sending fake threats to other countries for fun. Even if all of these statements are true, they do not even begin to explain the horrors of this atrocious situation. A wide variety of crimes against humanity have been committed in North Korea, ranging from persecution based on grounds of opinion such as religion, politics and gender to knowingly causing prolonged famine. The focus on North Korea's nuclear weapons program has caused the world to ignore reports of these inhumane crimes. One of the worst atrocities committed by North Korea is the punishment of placing its citizens in prison camps that bear similarities, and in some cases are even worse, than the concentration camps run by the Nazis during the the holocaust and the camps created by the police. Pot during his reign in Cambodia. The prison camps in North Korea have a special structure, designed to degrade the people there to animal standards. In fact, the conditions prisoners must live in have become harsher under Kim Jong Un's rule. These prison camps have an unknown official beginning, however, the first satellite imagery of Camp 16, released in 2007, found that which appeared as distinct fences and guard posts around a large area of ​​land that resembled a small camp village (Stanton). Around 200,000 people are held prisoner in the camps. They found most of the camps located in the separated mountains...... middle of paper ...... April 2014. .(Freeman) Freeman, Colin. "'A shock to the conscience of humanity: the UN condemns the North Korean regime and compares it to the Nazis and Pol Pot.' Vancouver Sunshine. (2014): 1-3. Internet. April 12, 2014. .(Ip) Ip, Jennifer. “Condemn North Korea’s crimes against humanity.” Force change. (2014): 1.Web. April 12, 2014. .(Baek) Baek, Jieun. "North Korean prison camp survivor reveals gruesome details inside Yodeok concentration camp." PoliticsMic. Np, November 17, 2012. Web. April 16. 2014. .