Only ONE Person Has Ever Escaped From A North Korean Prison: Shin Dong-hyuk

[BlooInBloo]

There's no point in excerpting, just go read it.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/10/AR2008121003855.html

[Juche]

1. Others have escaped

http://www.amazon.com/Aquariums-Pyongyang-Years-North-Korean/dp/0465011020

[BlooInBloo]

3. (facepalm)

[Sanctified]

4. The author of that book was released, this guy did a prison break. n/t

[rockymountaindem]

2. South Korea needs to do a better job taking care of that guy

I don't know how they can expect him to have any understanding of living in the real world.

[Starry Messenger]

5. Thank you Bloo.

What an amazing story. I hope to see the end of that oppressive regime in our lifetime. The tales of starvation and torment that leak out about North Korea just break my heart.

[MilesColtrane]

6. Horrifying

There's a TGIFridays in Seoul?

Seriously, I hope this young man is able to someday realize that all human beings aren't monsters.

[MrSlayer]

7. What a horror it must be to live in North Korea.

Let alone a North Korean slave camp. It's hard to fathom.