Anecdotes of bad apples in the system don't prove it's like NK. Maybe your expectations for prisons is unrealistic to begin with. The Stanford prison experiment shows there are inherent problems whenever you have guards and inmates. Stop comparing things to utopia and start comparing things to what they can realistically be. A prison with 0 abuses is not one. (And actually propose solutions rather than just use this as an excuse to promote an ultra-isolationist foreign policy where madmen running nations are allowed nukes.)
Guantanamo has moral problems, but it's not a political prison. It's a prison for unlawful enemy combatants against the US. Every war has prisoners of war. At it peak it had 779 prisoners and only 8 died. NK political prisons have 200000 prisoners, relatives included who literally have done nothing wrong and a 40% mortality from malnutrition.
Most from Gitmo have been released.
Guantanamo has moral problems, but it's not a political prison. It's a prison for unlawful enemy combatants against the US. Every war has prisoners of war. At it peak it had 779 prisoners and only 8 died. NK political prisons have 200000 prisoners, relatives included who literally have done nothing wrong and a 40% mortality from malnutrition.
Most from Gitmo have been released.