Satellite images taken by a committee in the United States, Committee for Human Rights in North Korea (HRNK), have released surprising facts about a North Korean political prisoner camp, also known as Camp 25.
Camp 25 is located in the most north-eastern region out of four main prisons in North Korea, this one currently holding captive 5,000 people.
Through images, it is being assumed that this camp focuses its labor work on agricultural products, including 75 acres of cultivated farmland, possibly for grain crops, orchards and greenhouses.
Greg Scarlatoiu, the executive director of the committee stated that these images hint the rising economic value of Prison Camp 25, because of such possibilities for farming activities.
However, there is no sign of agricultural machinery in these photographs.
In the satelite images, there are only people - the permanent prisoners placed at "guard posts", meaning that manpower mostly does all of the work instead of technology.
The area is seen to cover an old cemetary, which is assumed to include the burial for dead prisoners from the political camp.
Photos also show a military site for air force, including 14 anti-aircraft guns.
These images are released amid risen attention on North Korea's human rights violation, particularly highlighted by the UN inquiry commission head Michael Kirby and his visit to Seoul.
The South Korean government has accepted the international organization's proposal to set up a field office for monitoring human rights, which Pyongyang has recently announced threats against the installation.
