North korea camp 14 shin dong-hyuk biography
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Shin Dong-hyuk
North Korean defector
For other people named Shin Dong-hyuk, see Shin Dong-hyuk (disambiguation).
In this Korean name, the family name is Shin.
Shin Dong-hyuk (born Shin In Geun, 19 November or [2]) is a North Korean-born human rights activist. He claims to be the only prisoner to have successfully escaped from a "total-control zone" grade internment camp in North Korea. His biography, Escape from Camp One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West, was written with the assistance of former Washington Post journalist Blaine Harden.
Shin has given talks to audiences around the world about his life in North Korea's Camp 14 to raise awareness of the situation in North Korean internment and concentration camps and North Korea. Shin has been described as the world's "single strongest voice" on the atrocities inside North Korean camps by a member of the United Nations' first commission of inquiry into human rights abuses of
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Shin Dong-hyuk: What you need to know about the North Korean prisoner who admitted claims in bestseller Escape From Camp 14 were false
Shin Dong-hyuk's chilling konto of horrendous brutality at the hands of North Korean guards was, in part, false. Here's why his story was poised to bring down Kim Jong-un's government, and what's going to happen next.
Escape from Camp One Man's Remarkable Odyssey From North Korea to Freedom in the West, was written by reporter Blaine Harden in , and it formed the basis of a UN inquiry into Kim Jong-un's despotic regime.
Shin is the only known person to have escaped North Korea
Shin Dong-hyuk, 32, lives in Seoul, South Korea, and is believed to be the only prisoner to have escaped from a "total control zone" camp in North Korea. He was born in Camp 14, which is in between the Taedong river and extends into mountains in the South Pyongyang Province. Imprisonment in this camp is for life and people who are "politically unreliable" are sent h
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North Korea camp survivor Shin Dong-hyuk changes story
A North Korean prison camp escapee, who is now a high-profile human rights campaigner, has apologised for inaccuracies in his story.
Shin Dong-hyuk, 32, was the subject of a best-selling book after he fled North Korea in
The book described how Mr Shin was tortured, and his relatives killed.
On Saturday, the author said that although the key elements of Mr Shin's accounts were correct, the time and date of some events were wrong.
"From a human rights perspective, he was still brutally tortured, but he moved things around," Blaine Harden, the author, told the Washington brev, external.
Mr Shin was born inre a North Korean labour camp. He said that he spent 23 years in captivity before his escape, and that during his time inside, he was starved, tortured and saw his mother and brother executed.
He managed to flee after climbing through an electric fence, and eventually settled in South Korea.
Mr Harden