Shin Dong-hyuk - Wikipedia
Shin Dong-hyuk (born Shin In Geun, 19 November 1982 or 1980 [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.
North Korean prisoner escaped after 23 brutal years - CBS News
Jan 19, 2015 · Born in a prison camp, Shin Dong-hyuk describes how three generations of a family are incarcerated if one family member is considered disloyal
Shin Dong-hyuk: What you need to know about the North …
Jan 19, 2015 · 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...
Shin Dong-hyuk: Life of a Slave - George W. Bush Presidential …
5 days ago · Shin Dong Hyuk is the only known person to be born in a North Korean gulag and escape to freedom. In North Korea, whole families are incarcerated for the offenses of a single family member. As many as 130,000 men, women and children are imprisoned in North Korea’s vast system of gulags.
'Escape From Camp 14': Inside North Korea's Gulag - NPR
Mar 29, 2012 · Shin Dong-hyuk is the only person known to have been born in North Korea's prison camps and gotten out alive. Journalist Blaine Harden tells the story of Shin's...
‘Escape from Camp 14’ a true North Korea survival story | CNN
Mar 30, 2012 · Shin Dong-hyuk is the only known person born in a North Korean prison camp that escaped and survived to tell the tale.
North Korea: Survivor Shin Dong-hyuk Says He Changed His Story - TIME
Jan 19, 2015 · Born in a notorious North Korean prison complex, Shin endured almost unimaginable deprivation and torture before breaking out, crawling under an electrified fence, and over the body of...
Shin Dong-Hyuk, North Korea - Human Rights Watch
Sep 16, 2014 · Shin Dong-Hyuk is the world’s leading advocate for closing North Korea’s camps for political prisoners, known as kwan-li-so. He is the only known escapee of North Korea’s Camp 14 – a “total...
Human rights defender's story: Shin Dong-hyuk from North Korea
Shin Dong-Hyuk was born and spent the first 23 years of his life in prison Camp 14 in North Korea. Shin escaped from the camp in 2005, the only person known to have done so, and has since dedicated himself to exposing gross human rights violations in North Koreas and struggling for the freedom of its people.
Born and Raised in a North Korean Prison Camp - ABC News
Jan 7, 2009 · Shin Dong-Hyuk had no answers because at age 14, he was required to live in the dormitory with other teenagers in North Korea's notorious political prison camp No.14, north of Pyongyang.