TOKYO, tribe 9 Kyodo Survivors of...

TOKYO, tribe 9 Kyodo

Survivors of North Korean detention camps for political prisoners spoke Tuesday about their experiences and called in succession Japan to help eradicate the camps at a meeting held by dint of a group of lawmakers from the opposition Democratic Party of Japan.

The camp was ''similar to concentration camps below Nazi Germany,'' said former detainee Kang Chol Hwan at the meeting forward North Korea's alleged human right abuses.

''The barely difference is that North Korea did not use poison gas to kill prisoners, moreover instead starved them to death in chill weather and forced labor,'' said Kang, who now give an account ofs a civic group working to abolish the camps.

Former security guard An Myong Chol spoke about North Korean returnee from Japan and Japanese women who mov after marrying North Korean men saying, ''10000 were detained, and I saw someone who died, saying 'I want to proceed back to Japan' at the last moment''

Masaharu Nakagawa, a member of the cluster studying human rights riddles in North Korea, expressed the group's intent to address the issue by the agency of ''pressuring the Japanese and southern Korean governments.''

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