Satellite imagery reviewed by Newsweek shows the continued operation of North Korea's political prison camps, where as many as 65,000 people are believed to be held, according to a new report.

Newsweek contacted the North Korean Embassy in Beijing for comment via email.

Why It Matters

North Korea's totalitarian government is widely considered one of the world's worst violators of human rights.

Among the regime's practices is the imprisonment of individuals—and sometimes their family members—in camps reserved for those accused of "anti-Party, anti-revolutionary, and anti-state" offenses, which include perceived slights against supreme leader Kim Jong Un and possessing foreign media .

North Korean defectors have described the camps as sites of systemic abuse, including torture, s

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