Escape from Camp 14 One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West

Name: Escape from Camp 14 One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West
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ISBN: 9780230748736

ISBN-10: 0230748732

ISBN-13: 9780230748736

Edition: 2012

Authors: Blaine Harden

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Twenty-six years ago, Shin Dong-hyuk was born inside Camp 14, one of five sprawling political prisons in the mountains of North Korea. Located about 55 miles north of Pyongyang, the labor camp is a 'complete control district,' a no-exit prison where the only sentence is life. Inmates work 12 to 15-hour days in the camp – mining coal, building dams, sewing military uniforms – until they are executed, killed in work-related accidents or die of illness that is usually triggered by hunger. No one born in Camp 14 or in any North Korean political prison camp has escaped. No one except Shin. This is his story. A gripping, terrifying memoir with a searing sense of place, ESCAPE FROM…

Book details

List price: $16.99
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Publication date: 3/29/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 6.34" wide x 9.49" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

Blaine Harden, an award-winning journalist, is a contributor to The Economist and a former foreign correspondent for the Washington Post. He lives in Seattle, Washington.