North Korea keeps at least 150,000 people locked up in gulags where they are forced to work behind barbed wire and electrified fences, according to a human rights group. Sixty North Koreans shared bleak stories of life in the prison camps in the latest report from the U.S.-based Committee for Human Rights in North Korea. Former prisoners said they were constantly on the verge of starvation, rarely able to bathe and forced to do back-breaking labor a dozen hours or more a day, the report said. Entire families, including children and grandparents, have been jailed for the alleged political crimes of their relatives, it said. LOS ANGELES TIMES