Horrors Of North Korea Labor Camp

... he didn't understand family in the normal sense. He knew that he would be punished if his mother and brother tried to escape. So to him, there was no choice but to tell the guards of their plan ...

"I was 14 years old when my mother and brother were publically executed, but I felt no emotion," Shin said. "Rather, I felt relieved that I was not the one that was tied to the wooden stake ... I felt my mom and brother broke the prison camp rules so that they deserved what they were going through ..."

He watched as his mother was hanged and his brother was killed by a firing squad. It was two years after escaping to South Korea when he finally felt any guilt.

http://www.foxnews.mobi/quickPage.html?p...30017_pageNum_1

This must be a mistake. North Korea is a happy worker's paradise where everyone loves their leader. Why would someone escape?

A funny thing happened on the way to the gulag...

hmmmm

Well this is an interesting example of selective scripting.

I heard part of the interview and some analysis of his story. The mental torture along with the physical can really affect your concept of reality.

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This fellow would make a good compliance officer. Sticks to the rules and has no remorse for those who don't.

I don't know...


...sounds a little soft if you ask me.

NBC Nightly News reported last week that malnutrition has caused the NK Army to reduce its height requirement to 4'9". In the fewer than 70 years since the end of WW2, the North Koreans have become substantially smaller than their South K cousins.

There is probably no better argument for democracy and free enterprise than the differences between North and South.

Read an article in our paper this weekend that a group of reporters were in N Korea, not really sure the purpose of the visit, but their tour busses (there were 3) took a wrong turn from the "perfectly paved and clean marble lined streets" into a pothole filled dirt road in the middle of the capital and went about 3-4 blocks into squallor, realizing their mistake they hastily reversed course back to cleanliness...their "tour guides" kindly reminded them that taking pictures outside of approved areas and writing about the erroneous wrong turn was forbidden.

They were invited to observe the 'festivities' of the rocket 'agricultural satellite' launch.

If they were late, they were strapped to it.

this member of the axis of evil thrives because we give them legitimacy by making deals that they promptly violate, time and time again....

Thank you for your comment, but lets try to keep the new posting giudelines in mind, and steer the conversation away from a political skew.

Regards.

That said, I could not imagine the guilt he lives with, but with your own survival on the line... I just cannot imagine.