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Further Information on Shin Dong Hyuk

Posted in Concentration Camps, Refugees / Defectors on August 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Escapee Tells of Horrors in North Korean Prison Camp http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/10/AR2008121003855_3.html      Born and raised in a North Korean gulag http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/09/world/asia/09iht-korea.4.6569853.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1   I was a Political Prison at Birth in North Korea http://www.northkoreanrefugees.com/2007-09-atbirth.htm   Escapee of North Korea’s brutal prison camp tells his horrifying story Part 1/2   Part 2/2

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Story of Shin Dong Hyuk, Born and Raised in Prison Camp

Posted in Concentration Camps, Refugees / Defectors on August 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Shin was born in Camp No. 14 to parents whose union was rewarded by prison guards for excellent work as laborers. Born and raised in the prison camp, Shin thought doign forced labors all day long, getting beatings from guards, and starving from lack of food were normal things that everybody was going through. However, fourteen years after living [...]

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Female N.Korean refugees suffer abuse

Posted in Civil Liberties, Concentration Camps, Health Issues, Refugees / Defectors on March 2, 2010 | 2 Comments »

If you are a North Korean, you would be in a dire need of protection of your human rights under the government’s oppression. If you are a North Korean and woman, you would know that wherever you go, the protection of your rights would be barely possible. Even once a few of those North Koreans successfully flee [...]

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Some Suggestive Reading List

Posted in Concentration Camps, Health Issues, Others, Refugees / Defectors on February 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

In 2009, North Korea received 300,000 tons of food aid. However, 1/3 of North Koreans still remain starved. s                                                                      Interview with a North Korean defector who survived in one of the most notorious Yoduk political prison camp. s                                                                        s It’s very positive to hear that North Korean defectors who now reside in South Korea voluntarily [...]

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Ji-eun’s Story

Posted in Civil Liberties, Concentration Camps, Health Issues, Refugees / Defectors on February 11, 2010 | 1 Comment »

JoongAng Daily’s article features a story of Ji-Eun, a North Korean defector who currently resides in Seoul. Her father died in North Korea when she was little and the family had a hard time carving out a living in the poverty stricken nation. In 2000, when she was 6 years old, her mother decided to escape North Korea with Ji-eun [...]

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Robert Park released

Posted in Civil Liberties, Concentration Camps, Politics, Refugees / Defectors on February 5, 2010 | 6 Comments »

An American Christian activist Robert Park , having been detained in North Korea since the last Christmas, has been released and arrived in Beijing today. He will later be taken to the U.S. embassy. s s … according to comments attributed to Robert Park by Pyongyang’s Korean Central News Agency, the North Koreans have convinced him that he was wrong in his view of [...]

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