Prison camps · North Hamgyong Province
Camp 25, Chongjin
25호 청진 관리소
Camp 25 is located inside the urban area of Chongjin, North Hamgyong Province. Satellite imagery analyzed by HRNK and CSIS shows significant expansions of guard posts, perimeter walls, and agricultural workshops during the 2010s. Unlike mountain valley camps, Camp 25 operates within city limits and holds political prisoners performing forced manufacturing and agriculture.
Open on the intel map Chongjin City county How the camp system works
Satellite watch
Captured 8 Oct 2026Our own images of this 7.7 km square from the European Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellites: the newest clear picture, and the clearest one from each of the last 24 months. One pixel is 10 m, enough to see roads, fields, ponds and large buildings, not people.
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We pick each image by measuring cloud inside this square from the satellite’s own scene classification. Months with no clear image are left out. We do not mark or interpret anything in the pictures. The ring marks the point on our map.
Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2024-2026 · Copernicus Data Space · Sentinel-2 L2A COGs (AWS)
Crimes against humanity
Whole families are sent to kwanliso without trial under guilt by association (yeonjwa-je). The 2014 UN Commission of Inquiry found these crimes in the political prison camps:
- Extermination
- Murder
- Enslavement
- Torture
- Imprisonment
- Rape
- Forced abortion
- Persecution
- Enforced disappearance
