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Jenna McLaughlin, Foreign Policy: US spies are looking for mass graves in North Korea
* For the first time, the US intelligence community will provide humanitarian groups and nongovernmental organizations with rare satellite footage that could help them to identify human rights abuses in North Korea.
* The images have never before been shared this publicly with human rights groups.
* The coordination could make it easier to call attention to North Korean atrocities, including mass graves.
For the past several years, humanitarian groups and nongovernmental organizations have combed commercial satellite imagery in North Korea, looking for evidence of human rights abuses, such as mass graves. Now, some will have access to satellite photos and analysis from an American spy agency.
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, which maps the earth's surface with data from drones, satellites, and other airborne craft, will provide raw imagery, expert review, and the use of an already developed digital app and publishing platform to several nonprofit organizations and think tanks.
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WNU editor: This is not going to be an easy job. After the fall of Communism in the Soviet Union there was a search in Russia for where did all the bodies go during their reign .... especially during the time of Stalin and the operation of the Gulags. In many cases the search was a disappointment. This reminds me on what happened after the defeat of Nazi Germany .... even though the camps claimed 11 million lives .... only a fraction of those who died in these camps were ever found. We only know that these people were killed because of the meticulous book-keeping that both Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union maintained during this time. My prediction will be the same for North Korea. The bodies will not be found, but the records will reveal who was arrested, where they went, and (maybe) the approximate date on when they died.
