Group identifies 600 alleged North Korean rights abusers

A correctional officer patrols the cells in Onsong County MPS Detention Centre. Korea Future says prisoners are held together in a single cell with only one bucket of water that they must use for everything, and share [Courtesy of Korea Future]

The United Kingdom-based non-profit Korea Future has released a list of nearly 600 people associated with human rights abuses in North Korea’s penal system to flag them for eventual prosecution.

North Korea’s human rights abuses have been widely documented by rights groups, but its government headed by Kim Jong Un and the Workers’ Party of Korea has been difficult to prosecute from abroad.