The camp is located in Kae'chŏn county, P'yŏngan-namdo province in North Korea.
But the prisoners are also used as slave workers, who have to fulfill high production quotas in very difficult conditions.
[4] The human rights situation in the camp is described in detail by Lee Soon-ok in her testimony to the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary.
Prisoners are only occasionally allowed to use the toilet (one for about 300 people) and may only take a shower after several months.
[4] Food rations are 100 grams of broken corn three times a day and a salt soup.
Lee Soon-ok reported that prisoners even killed rats and ate them raw in order to survive.
Lee Soon-ok witnessed babies born alive being murdered directly after birth.