Escape from Camp 14

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Cheol Ryu recommends Escape from Camp 14 as a valuable resource when discussing North Korea, praising it as a firsthand account from someone born and raised in a political prison camp spanning three generations. He views it as an important reference point for understanding the country's detention system.

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A New York Times bestseller, the shocking story of one of the few people born in a North Korean political prison to have escaped and survived. Blaine Harden's latest book, King of Spies , will be available from Viking in Fall 2017. North Korea is isolated and hungry, bankrupt and belligerent. It is also armed with nuclear weapons. Between 150,000 and 200,000 people are being held in its political prison camps, which have existed twice as long as Stalin's Soviet gulags and twelve times as long as the Nazi concentration camps. Very few born and raised in these camps have escaped. But Shin Donghyuk did. In Escape from Camp 14 , acclaimed journalist Blaine Harden tells the story of Shin Dong-hyuk and through the lens of Shin's life unlocks the secrets of the world's most repressive totalitarian state.

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  Cheol Ryu👍 Recommends

  …referencing a book about north korean political prison camps and family punishment

  “So whenever people ask me that, there's a really good book that I like to reference people to. It's called Escape from Camp 14. It's a book written by a North Korean defector who was born and raised in the political prison camp where three generations of your family goes to.”

  Digital Social Hour — North Korean Survivor Reveals Disturbing Horror Stories | Cheol Ryu | DSH #1869at 02:12

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