Camp 14: Total Control Zone

Shin Dong-Huyk entered the world on November 19, 1983, as a political detainee within a North Korean re-education camp. Born to two prisoners who were wed under the orders of the camp authorities, he spent his entire childhood and adolescence in Camp 14, essentially a death camp. From the age of six, he was subjected to forced labor and endured hunger, beatings, and torture, constantly under the control of the wardens. He was completely unaware of life beyond the barbed-wire confines. At 23, with assistance from an older inmate, he successfully escaped. He spent months journeying through North Korea and China before reaching South Korea, where he encountered a world that was entirely unfamiliar to him.