The U.S. State Department on Wednesday issued a statement in support of North Korea Freedom Week and said that Washington will continue to press the DPRK on its poor human rights record.

The statement condemned North Korea’s political prison camps and human rights violations in “virtually every aspect of life.”

“For more than 60 years the people of North Korea have faced egregious human rights violations,” the statement from State Department Spokesperson Heather Nauert reads.

“In addition to the roughly 100,000 individuals, including children and family members of the accused, who suffer in