An AI-based analysis of the Sinuiju prison camp in North Korea indicates that reconstruction has been underway since last year—marking the first such effort in approximately 55 years. This development appears to be a response to continued international pressure over human rights issues, including from the United Nations Human Rights Seoul and HRNK. Although the construction has taken over a year, it demonstrates that North Korea sees it as valuable enough to allocate resources and has the capacity to do so. Through newly established and modernized facilities, North Korea appears to be responding to international criticism while simultaneously strengthening physical control over prisoners under the pretense of facility improvement. In the long term, these sites seem to be used as foreign currency-earning bases by exploiting inmates to produce major export goods for China.