Mao Zedong died nearly four days later just after midnight, at 00:10, on September 9, 1976, at age 82. The Communist Party of China delayed the announcement of his death until 16:00 later that day, when a radio message broadcast across the nation announced the news of Mao's passing while appealing for party unity.
The internment camps are located in central and northeastern North Korea. They comprise many prison labour colonies in secluded mountain valleys, completely isolated from the outside world. The total number of prisoners is estimated to be 150,000 to 200,000.
Japanese-American Internment. 1  Many Americans worried that citizens of Japanese ancestry would act as spies or saboteurs for the Japanese government. Fear â not evidence â drove the U.S. to place over 127,000 Japanese-Americans in concentration camps for the duration of WWII.