PPC No. 18, located in Pukchang, South Pyongan Province, under the control of Police Headquarters, was clearly distinct in administration from PPC under the control of the SSA. Further study is required to determine if the camp can be recognized as a PPC. The camp No. 18 in Pukchang remained in the same location after a section of it was moved and relocated somewhere upstream of the Taedong River to make a new PPC in Kaechon. Lately, many areas were returned to local government and some prisoners were relocated to the Pongchang area. The present survey reveals that the process and situation were distinct by areas. “When PPC No. 18 was partially closed, there remained some 80 families that were not to be released. I was told that PPC No. 18 could not be totally closed as part of its purpose was the detention of formerly high ranking officials dispatched at any time from Pyongyang or Kangwon Province, a location to detain high ranking officials in future. The 80 families did not have records of serious crimes. They were, rather, from families so impoverished that they could not bribe officials for release. In North Korea. being poor is a crime and being unable to bribe is a sin. PPC No.’s 14 and No. 18 face each other across the Taedong River. Public trials and execution took place behind the tile factory where I used to work in PPC No. 18 and these were watched by the entire prisoner population of PPC No 14 from the other side of the river. PPC No. 14 has only farms. When it was closed in the beginning of 2007, the 80 families that were not released were transported to Mujindae. The two guard posts, Chaktong and Songni, were closed. The tile factory, part of the construction unit and where I’d worked, the planning and draftsmen office, the cement and pottery factories, the liquor factory and elderly prisoners’ unit were all moved over to No. 14. Roads disappeared and new barbed wire was set up. Barbed wire was also set up in the 50