La Place Des Miserables: 39.713N, 126.895E

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This is one district, called Pyongchang-ri, of the infamous Camp 15, now known worldwide as Yodok. Here, according to survivors, children labor, starve, sicken, and die beside their parents — thousands of them each year. The entire camp is massive, and not all of it is within Google Earth’s high-resolution coverage. This picture gives a partial overview; you can see another photograph of this district here, and more photos here

Yodok was the place Kang Chol-Hwan documented in “The Aquariums of Pyongyang.” It is now the inspiration for “Yoduk Story.”

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