§ 9242. Report on North Korean prison camps

• (a) The Secretary of State shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report that describes, with respect to each political prison camp in North Korea, to the extent information is available—
  • (1) the camp’s estimated prisoner population;
  • (2) the camp’s geographical coordinates;
  • (3) the reasons for the confinement of the prisoners;
  • (4) the camp’s primary industries and products, and the end users of any goods produced in the camp;
  • (5) the individuals and agencies responsible for conditions in the camp;
  • (6) the conditions under which prisoners are confined, with respect to the adequacy of food, shelter, medical care, working conditions, and reports of ill-treatment of prisoners; and
  • (7) imagery, to include satellite imagery of the camp, in a format that, if published, would not compromise the sources and methods used by the United States intelligence community to capture geospatial imagery.
• (b) The report required under subsection (a) may be included in the first human rights report required to be submitted to Congress after February 18, 2016 , under sections 2151n(d) and 2304(b) of this title.