Revealed: Life inside North Korea's torturous prison camps
WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT: New video has emerged that shows the brutal beatings inmates in North Korean prison camps receive regularly.
Along with beatings, inmates are deprived of food, forced to do hard labour and face potentially fatal torture.
The video shows an inmate being yelled at before the man stands up and starts agressively beating him.
The inmate is thrown against the wall, hit over the head, kicked, pulled by the hair and thrown to the floor.
A second video captures the moment an inmate - who is blindfolded - is thrown to the ground and kicked in the head several times.
It's thought around 200,000 victims of Kim Jong-un's rule are living their lives in his camps at any one time.
Patrolled by guards equipped with automatic rifles, hand grenades and trained dogs, sleep deprivation, beatings with iron rods or sticks, kicking and slapping, and enforced sitting or standing for hours’, is regular in the camps.
Inmates are forced to eat rats and frogs to survive, are housed in cramped cells infested with lice and are allowed just one set of clothes.
Families of inmates are viewed as guilty by association and so whole generations are sent to camps.
Just this week, 22-year-old US university student Otto Warmbier died six days after he was released from the unbearable conditions.
In 2016, Otto Warmbier, the Ohio man was sentenced to 15 years in prison after being convicted of stealing a propaganda poster from a North Korean hotel.
But after spending 17 months behind bars, Warmbier was medically evacuated home to the United States where he died on Monday.
His distraught family says he suffered "awful torturous mistreatment" and has declined an autopsy.
An American official said Warmbier had endured brutal beatings while behind bars, but had no evidence of physical abuse, according to the New York Times.
Other doctors have suggested the university student could have been heavily medicated or suffered a traumatic injury.
Earlier this year, Anti-Slavery International detailed more hardship endured in the camps through a report.
The report said prisoners were beaten for various reasons such as lying or being suspected of lying, not working fast enough, or forgetting the words to patriotic songs.
More than 90 per cent of the interviewees either witnessed beatings or were hit themselves while in detention.
