Escape From Camp 14

[Boethius]

This is not a FSU topic per se, although the description of life in a communist prison camp is similar to gulag stories from the USSR.

I am posting this because it is both fascinating, and, I think, important for us to recognize what some humans today still endure.  I knew a great deal about gulag life, but there were still things here that surprised and shocked me.

If you follow the link, there is a podcast from one of Canada's most popular radio programmes, The Current.  It is about Shin Dong-hyuk, the only person ever known to have been born in a North Korean prison camp and escaped it.  The Current usually does 20 minute pieces, but this was rather longer, to tell more of Shin Dong-hyuk's story of life in a prison camp and his escape. 

His story has also been told by Blaine Hardin, a former Washington Post reporter.  I have linked to Mr. Hardin's book as well.  Well worth the read.


http://www.cbc.ca/thecurrent/episode/2012/05/14/escape-from-camp-14-shin-dong-hyuk/


http://www.cbc.ca/thecurrent/episode/2012/05/14/escape-from-camp-14-part-two/

http://www.amazon.com/Escape-Camp-14-Remarkable-Odyssey/dp/0670023329