OPINION: "Inside North Korea's Gulag," by Melanie Kirkpatrick, Wall Street Journal, 16 June 2009.

The usual scary stuff from those rare few who have escaped the political camps.

Nice bit at end:

In the epilogue to "The Aquariums of Pyongyang," his 2000 book about growing up in the infamous Yodok prison camp, Kang Choi-Hwan expresses his anger at the world's indifference to the human-rights abuses in the North. "We're told that this debate would be better left until another day," he writes. "But by then we'll all be dead."