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catman
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 Posted: Sat May 19, 2012 3:47 pm Post subject: Escape from Camp 14 |
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I just purchased this today. Looks pretty light so it probably won't take too long to get through.
I'm back in Canada now so I don't know if english editions are available in Korea yet.
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Nine years after watching his mother's hanging, Shin In Geun squirmed through the electric fence that surrounds Camp 14 and ran off through the snow into the North Korean wilderness. It was January 2, 2005. Before then, no one born in a North Korean political prison camp had ever escaped. As far as can be determined, Shin is still the only one to do it.
He was 23 years old and knew no one outside the fence.
Within a month, he had walked into China. Within two years, he was living in South Korea. Four years later, he was living in Southern California.
Stunted by malnutrition, he is short and slight -- five feet six inches, about 120 pounds. His arms are bowed from childhood labor. His lower back and buttocks are scarred with burns from the torturer's fire. The skin over his pubis bears a puncture scar from the hook used to hold him in place over the fire. His ankles are scarred by shackles, from which he was hung upside down in solitary confinement. His right middle finger is cut off at the first knuckle, a guard's punishment for dropping a sewing machine in a camp garment factory. His shins, from ankle to knee on both legs, are mutilated and scarred by burns from the electrified barbed-wire fence that failed to keep him inside Camp 14.
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SMOE NSET
Joined: 25 Feb 2010
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Sat May 19, 2012 5:44 pm Post subject: |
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| I would give it a rating of 2.5/5. The writing style took the emotion out of the story and made it read like a timeline. |
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some waygug-in
Joined: 25 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sat May 26, 2012 11:15 am Post subject: |
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Your avatar is mewsmerizing. ^_*
CBC radio just did a program on this guy.
It's so sad to think that there are/were millions more like him who never
made it out. |
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falco
Joined: 26 Nov 2005
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| Posted: Sun May 27, 2012 8:59 am Post subject: |
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| Seriously good book. His story is almost unbelievable. At least a 4/5. |
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catman
Joined: 18 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Sun Jun 03, 2012 1:45 pm Post subject: |
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| SMOE NSET wrote: |
| I would give it a rating of 2.5/5. The writing style took the emotion out of the story and made it read like a timeline. |
Well Shin was pretty much void of most human emotions. His case would no doubt interest any psychologist. |
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