Since I had first begun to map North Korea’s concentration camp system on Google Earth, it had been a source of frustration to me that the imagery of Camp 15, the infamous Yodok Camp documented in Kang Chol Hwan’s memoir, was of such poor quality and resolution. The other day, my friend Curtis notified me that Google Earth had released much new imagery of North Korea, and with that new imagery, we now have a much better outline of Camp 15’s circumference (click to expand images):
The imagery shows several of the same distinctive, square guard posts we’ve seen around other camps:
On the northern side of the camp, there is a gate:
There is also new imagery of some of the other camps. I’ll be publishing more in the coming days.
