A worthwhile book, a quick read, and a sobering revelation. The real situation in North Korea is rarely exposed to western eyes. The communist totalitarian regime has created one of the worlds most malnourished, uneducated, suppressed and backward populaces in the world. What the "upper classes" ...
I think this is a very important book, and I'm glad to have read it. It wasn't as well written as Barbara Demick's book, which I thought was (despite what she blurbed on the back) a bit more terrifying, probably because it was more emotional. Harden's account of Shin's escape is very fact and action...
Ever wonder why the world didn't do more to end the horrors of Stalin's gulags or Hitler's work camps? Someday our children (or perhaps grandchildren or great-grandchildren) will ask the same question about our world today. Why doesn't the world do more to end the horrible inhumanity imposed on pe...
Born in a North Korean gulag, Shin endured its inhumanity for twenty-three years before escaping, making his way to China, South Korea, and eventually the United States. His experiences seem like something from a dystopian novel but they are all too real and shared by hundreds of thousands of other ...
Although this is short in length, it is the defining work of what goes on in the North Korean Gulags (whose existence is denied vehemently by its regime). The reason that makes this story unique is, unlike other accounts of survival and escape in the past from N. Korea, our protagonist, Shin In Geun...
There’s no denying that this biography does tell an incredible story – and does an excellent job of raising awareness about issues that might not be widely known to many. Blaine Harden tells Shin-Dong-hyuk’s story of his life in a political prison – and it really is life from birth onwards and coul...
Book of the week.http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01dtkj4/Book_of_the_Week_Book_of_the_Week_Escape_from_Camp_14_Episode_1/The story of Shin Dong Hyuk, who was born in a North Korean gulag and escaped to the West.BBC blurb - Prisoners work 15 hour days mining coal, building dams, sewing military...
From BBC Radio 4:Twenty six years ago, Shin Dong Hyuk was born inside Camp 14, one of five sprawling political prisons in the mountains of North Korea. Camp 14 is a 'complete control district' where the only sentence is life.http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qftk Thank you, Laura, for recommending...
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