North Korea is a very secretive country, and they have their own? ways of dealing with things. The country has so far claimed to have kept coronavirus in check, and has now come up with extreme measures to punish those violating COVID regulations.?
The authorities have opened up prison camps for those who flour COVID rules, calling them 'special criminals' - with some reports suggesting that many have died within days of being lodged in the cells.?
The North Korean Workers' Party has created a new policy which strictly categorises those who break coronavirus related rules as 'special criminals', saying they are guilty of political crimes - despite claims that there has not been any cases of the virus in the country.??
The country has introduced?aggressive quarantine regulations?on the the hard-hit provinces of Sungho-ri and North Hwanghae.
Now they are putting those who violate the non-nonsense?COVID?rules into hardline political prison camps,?reports?Express.
A new political prison camp was also opened in Hwachon to accommodate the new 'special criminals'.
Areas in the South Pyongan Province have been created for the prisoners, known as Camp 17 - located in Kaechon, while Camp 18 is based less than 40 km away in Pukchang.??
It has again highlighted the growing human rights concerns in the country. Just last week there were reports of how?citizens caught fleeing North Korea are being worked to death?by the authorities.?
Meanwhile, it was reported three weeks ago, that someone was publicly executed after being caught breaking coronavirus rules and crossing the border to China.??