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Escape from Camp 14
One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West
By Harden, Blaine
- ISBN
- 9780670023325
- Publisher
- Viking
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Starred Review on February 15, 2012 | Social Sciences
This is a relentlessly disturbing book, more so because Harden (former East Asia bureau chief, Washington Post) presents the facts dispassionately. Shin Dong-Hyuk was born in 1982 in one of North Korea's gulags, Camp 14, which covers 108 square miles and holds about 50,000 prisoners. In a world of horrific living conditions, brutal punishments, and competition for minimal scraps of food (supplemented by secret hunt...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
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