C ouples who have decided to divorce in North Korea will be sent to labor camps for up to six months as punishment, according to independent news service Radio Free Asia (RFA).

North Korea's Labor Camps Examined Two U.S. journalists were sentenced this week to 12 years hard labor. Chuck Downs, executive director of the Committee for Human Rights in North Korea, ...

About North Korea's labor camps. Amnesty International believes North Korean prison camps have been in use since the 1950s, according to CNN.As of 2012, the organization estimated that up to ...

In the past, North Korea has completely denied any reports of the existence of a labor camp system. However, there has been growing criticism of the camps from outside sources.

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A North Korean official publicly acknowledged to the international community the existence of his country’s “reform through labor” camps Tuesday, a mention that ...

A North Korean official publicly acknowledged to the international community the existence of his country's "reform through labor" camps Tuesday, a mention that appeared to come in response to a ...

SEATTLE (AP) — A U.S. citizen detained in North Korea for 15 months has been returned to a labor camp, prompting worries about his health, his sister said Friday.

North Koreans considered hostile to the government can spend the rest of their lives, along with their families, in one of at least five sprawling labor camps or colonies that encompass fields ...

A couple getting married in North Korea photographed in 2012. A report by Radio Free Asia revealed that North Korean couples who divorce are to be sent to labor camps as punishment.

Inside North Korea's Labor Camps Shayla Harris • June 10, 2009 Ian Williams of NBC looks inside the notorious camps where American journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee were sentenced to 12 years ...