RFA, Nov. 20, 2020
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North Korea has released some 7,000 labor camp prisoners under an amnesty, but ordered local cash-strapped governments and impoverished residents to foot the bill for housing and feeding the ex-convicts, sources in the country told RFA.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un ordered the prisoners released under a general amnesty for the Oct. 10 75th anniversary of the 1945 foundation of the ruling Korean Workers’ Party.
A resident of North Hamgyong province in the country’s northeast told RFA’s Korean Service Tuesday that the party’s Central Committee recently issued orders to care for the released prisoners in the name of Kim Jong Un.
“In response, the provincial party committee gave instructions to the neighborhood watch units in each district to make local residents take good care of these people,” said the source, who requested anonymity for security reasons.
In full: https://www.rfa.org/english/news/korea/prison-11202020193824.html
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