Claim North Korea inmates eat rats to survive

NORTH Korea has expanded its political prison camps in the past decade to hold about 200,000 people in “horrific” conditions, with some inmates eating rats to survive, Amnesty International has claimed.

A report from the human rights group painted a nightmarish picture of overwork, starvation and executions which detainees were forced to watch.

Amnesty said it had obtained satellite images revealing the location and size of the camps, along with new testimony from former inmates of the Yodok camp complex and others.