AllSource joins effort to monitor North Korea’s political prisons

LONGMONT — AllSource Analysis in Longmont will use its satellite imaging resources and analytical skills to monitor and report on North Korea’s political prison system in a new project that is intended to shed light on and save lives of people in the prisons.

AllSource is partnering with Washington D.C.-based nonprofit The Committee for Human Rights in North Korea, or HRNK, on the project. Financial terms of the partnership were not disclosed.

Greg Scarlatoiu, executive director of HRNK, said the collaboration will collect data needed to expose “human rights disasters” in the prisons.

“Up to 120,000 citizens are being held without due process…