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N Korean Gulag labour camp has 200,000 captives | North Korea’s notorious Gulag labour camps have over 200,000 men, women and children currently held captive. And the horror of these ‘concentration death camps’ has
been revealed by an escapee, who is one out of the only three people who ever
managed to escape the torturous world that exists in these camps. Shin Dong-hyuk,
was born inside Camp 14, which was a notorious labour camp for political dissidents
located south of Pyongyang . “The first rule was that you cannot escape. And there
were other parts to that first rule such as if you attempt to escape you will
be shot to death and those that sought the attempt to escape another prisoner
and failed to report, they themselves would be shot as well,” Shin said to Fox
News in an interview. At the age of 22, Shin managed to escape after plotting
with a fellow inmate, who had grown up on the outside. Hyuk and his friend made
a run for the electric fence as they were gathering wood. But his friend was electrocuted
on the fence which actually allowed Shin to climb over the body, avoiding any
injury and escape. He then made his way to the border, walking across a frozen
river to China . “My feeling at that time, even if I were to get shot and die,
was that I would want to experience even just for one day of that freedom and
that life that this prisoner had told me so much about. Unfortunately, it was
only I who was able to escape successfully,” Shin said, who was willing to risk
death for the chance to be free. Reports said that Shin has severe burn scars
on his back from being tortured. He was 14 when his mother and brother tried to
escape the camp but Shin turned them in. He said he knew that he would be punished
if his mother and brother tried to escape, so to him, there was no choice but
to tell the guards of their plan. He says he watched as his mother and brother
were killed by the camp officials. “Right now, it's hard for me to understand
what I did at that time... So after I come to South Korea and learned about the
outside world and learned about family, I was only 14 years old at that time,
I realized I had committed an unimaginable thing and I felt much guilt at that
time,” Shin said in the interview. Shin said that all the prisoners of the labour
camp had a habit of looking down whenever they walked, in hope of finding any
food or food scraps. “As I was walking, on the ground I saw two pieces of two
kernels of corn that was in the cow dung that was on the ground," Shin said. "Without
giving it much thought, I took the two kernels of corn and did whatever I could
to wash it or clean it up. I ate them because I was so hungry.” Author Blaine
Harden in her new book, “Escape from Camp 14”, has detailed Shin's extraordinary
escape and conditions in these modern day concentration camps.
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