Escape from Camp 14

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Introducing the incredible story of Shin Dong-hyuk - the only person born in a North Korean gulag ever to escape...Twenty-six years ago, Shin Dong-hyuk was born inside Camp 14, one of five sprawling political prisons in the mountains of North Korea. Located about 55 miles north More...of Pyongyang, the labor camp is a 'complete control district,' a no-exit prison where the only sentence is life. Inmates work 12 to 15-hour days in the camp - mining coal, building dams, sewing military uniforms - until they are executed, killed in work-related accidents or die of illness that is usually triggered by hunger. No one born in Camp 14 or in any North Korean political prison camp has escaped. No one except Shin. This is his story. A gripping, terrifying memoir with a searing sense of place, Escape From Camp 14 will unlock, through Shin, a dark and secret nation, taking readers to a place they have never before been allowed to go

About the author

Blaine Harden, geboren 1952, ist Autor des "Economist". Zuvor war er Korrespondent der "Washington Post" in Asien, Osteuropa und Afrika und arbeitete eine Zeitlang für die "New York Times".