Escape from Camp 14
The first political prisoner born in a North Korean labour camp to make it past the fence and flee

Date Written:  2012-04-13
Publisher:  The Guardian
Year Published:  2012
Pages:  3pp   Resource Type:  Article

An excerpt from a book of the same title narrating the harrowing experiences of Shin Dong-hyuk. He is believed to be the only camp-born person to have escaped the North Korean prison labor camps that detain up to two hundred-thousand political prisoners.

Subject Headings

• Communism
• Corporal Punishment
• Death Threats
• Dictatorship
• Hunger
• Labour Camps
• Militarism
• North Korea
• Oppression
• Political Prisoners/Prisoners of Conscience
• Prisons
• Refugees