In the North Korean communist regime’s “far-reaching system of terror, degradation, and slave labor,” an estimated 200,000 people are now being held in more than 10 different prison camps for such “crimes” as reading a foreign newspaper or complaining about the food situation, report the editors of Journal of Democracy (July 1998). Sun Ok Lee, who served a five-year prison term and later defected to South Korea, tells of her experience in the “North Korean gulag”: