Mick Hartley

A picture gallery in the Telegraph shows "a bird's eye view of the prisons and palaces of Kim Jong-il's North Korea". This image has the caption:

Labour-rehabilitation camps, or kyo-hwa-so, are usually built in a penitentiary style with perimeter walls and guard towers, and hold populations of up to 10,000 political prisoners, economic criminals, and ordinary criminals.

As Joshua Stanton at One Free Korea has noted, this bears a remarkable similarity to the caption he used when he published his own views of the camps from Google satellite pictures back in 2008:

Labor-rehabilitation camps, or kyo-hwa-so, are usually built in a penitentiary style with perimeter walls and guard towers, and hold populations of up to 10,000 political prisoners, economic criminals, and ordinary criminals.

Spot the difference? Yes, those cunning Telegraph hacks have changed the US "labor" to the UK "labour". Apart from that everything – including the Google maps and the yellow arrows on them – is identical.

Joshua:

To be clear, I am accusing the Telegraph of stealing images and text directly from this website and republishing them on its own website for commercial use, without my permission, and without attribution. As of the time of publication of this post, there’s no link or attribution at the Telegraph’s site. That is something no ethical journalist would do.

Update: the Telegraph now credits One Free Korea.