Thursday, March 22, 2012

How one man escaped from a North Korean prison camp

I posted a video awhile back, but this is much more in depth.


There was torture, starvation, betrayals and executions, but to Shin In Geun, Camp 14 – a prison for the political enemies of North Korea – was home. Then one day came the chance to flee.

His first memory is an execution. He walked with his mother to a wheat field, where guards had rounded up several thousand prisoners. The boy crawled between legs to the front row, where he saw guards tying a man to a wooden pole.

Shin In Geun was four years old, too young to understand the speech that came before that killing. At dozens of executions in years to come, he would listen to a guard telling the crowd that the prisoner about to die had been offered "redemption" through hard labour, but had rejected the generosity of the North Korean government.

Guards stuffed pebbles into the prisoner's mouth, covered his head with a hood and shot him.

In Camp 14, a prison for the political enemies of North Korea, assemblies of more than two inmates were forbidden, except for executions. Everyone had to attend them.

More @ The Guardian


3 comments:

  1. That is an amazing story... my god it must be awful there.

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  2. I'll second Pissed. And the way things are going, it might just be a glimpse at our future...

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  3. I'm sure they would be happy to make it so.

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