“The Control Center is comprised of a headquarters village, No.1
Valley, No. 2 Valley, No. 3 Valley, No. 4 Valley and No. 5 Valley. There are
about 100 houses for SSA officers’ families in PPC No. 14, two families at
each house for a total of 200 SSA officers’ families. Four prisoners’ families
lived in a house and there were 160 families in my village. On average,
each prisoner’s family was a mother and a child, two persons per each
family. Additionally, there are a large number of factories and the total
number of prisoners was estimated to be 70,000 to 100,000 by many
prisoners. But my estimate is about 50,000.” (Shin Dong-hyuk, former
prisoner from PPC No. 14)
“I do not know the size of the entire population but there were at
least 200 prisoners in the 1st Company and 2nd Company I was with.” (A04,
former prisoner from Sorimchon, PPC No. 15, 2002~2005)
“There were offices for administration, houses for SSA officers
(in charge of security), and a dining room, a hall with a capacity of 200
people, a clinic and a plaza inside the wall and surrounded by barbed wire.
There was a ward for patients, men and women’s toilets at the other side
of the plaza. Additionally, there was a ward for outpatients, a separate
patients’ ward for the 1st Company and 2nd Company. Half of the patient’s
ward tor the 2nd Company was for women. The patient’s ward was a single
storey made from earthen bricks with tiles on the roof. There was a
mountain behind and around the patient’s wards and there were guard
posts at the peak of the mountain. The maximum-security camp could be
supervised from a considerable distance, from the top of the mountain. I
was told that a high-security camp used to be inside that maximumsecurity camp. At that time, there were 150 male patients at the 1st
Company Ward and 25 women patients.” (A06, former prisoner from
Sorimchon, Camp No. 15, 2003~2006)
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