ms. kim hye-sook, there is barely anything i can have on the human-rights situation of north korea. the human-rights situation in north korea remains abysmal according to experts and testimony by the recent north korean defectors there is no evidence that the human-rights sedition and north korea has improved as the regime proceeds with steps towards leadership succession. on the contrary, it appears the border crackdown aimed at preventing the north koreans from defecting to china has intensified, and the political prisoner camp population has been on the increase. in may of this year, amnesty international released satellite imagery and new testimony shedding light on the horrific conditions of north korea's political prisoner camps. according to the organization, the prisoner population detained at such camps is up to 200,000, and it compares in the latest satellite photographs of satellite imagery from 2001 indicates a considerable increase in the scale of the camps. moving on to the flow of information and getting into north korea, although officially all personal radios must h