---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 9242"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "9242"
heading: "Report on North Korean prison camps"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/9242"
units:
  - "Chapter 99 — North Korea Sanctions and Policy Enhancement"
  - "Subchapter III — Promotion of Human Rights"
---

# §9242. Report on North Korean prison camps

- (a) **In general—** The Secretary of State shall submit to the [appropriate congressional committees](/usc/22/9202.md?p=3) a report that describes, with respect to each political prison camp in [North Korea](/usc/22/9202.md?p=11), 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](/usc/22/9202.md?p=8) to capture geospatial imagery.
- (b) **Form—** The report required under [subsection (a)](#a) may be included in the first human rights report required to be submitted to Congress after February 18, 2016, under sections [2151n(d)](/usc/22/2151n.md?p=d) and [2304(b)](/usc/22/2304.md?p=b) of this title.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 114–122, title III, § 303, Feb. 18, 2016, 130 Stat. 113.)