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popularmechanics/technology/military/news/4312850 1. North Korea/Wyoming detention center CLAIM: There is a minimum of one confirmed concentration camp built on American soil in rural Wyoming. The (Department of Homeland Security) accidentally placed these photos on a publicly accessible portion of their website (but) they were pulled within one hour. The images are not gone forever though. FACT: These actually are legitimate images of forced-labor colonies, camps, and prisons--in North Korea. The images were taken from The Hidden Gulag: Exposing North Koreas Prison Camps, a report prepared by the Washington D.C.-based Committee for Human Rights in North Korea. Then someone manipulated the headers, photo dates and annotations. The original five images, showing a dorm for prisoners, forced-labor shops and guard towers, are here. (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) When we first got the photos, we had no idea they were prison camps, said Matthew McKinzie, one of the men responsible for collecting the imagery. The North Korean gulags are work gulags; the prisoners are forced to work and live in what look like North Korean villages. It wasnt until we began interviewing former prisoners that we knew what we were looking at. In the fakes, original maps and geographic coordinates have been covered by poorly pasted DHS logos. The whole thing may have been a hoax--the name of the made-up facility, Swift Luck Greens, is an anagram for Left Wing Suckers--but its evidence that once things get passed around the Internet, they can lose context and the wildest theory wins.
Posted on: Sat, 11 Oct 2014 15:20:58 +0000

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