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BLAINE HARDEN

FROM THE DEATH CAMP

North Korean citizens remaining in the camps

There are no “problems with human rights” in our country, because everyone in it lives in dignity and happy life.

PREFACE. educational moment...............XVII

INTRODUCTION He has never heard the word "love".....1

CHAPTER 1

CHAPTER 2. His school years...............................35

CHAPTER 3

CHAPTER 4

CHAPTER 5

CHAPTER 6 .........74

CHAPTER 7 ..............82

CHAPTER 8

CHAPTER 9

CHAPTER 10

CHAPTER 11

CHAPTER 12. Sewing machines and denunciations .............. 121

CHAPTER 13

CHAPTER 14

CHAPTER 15

CHAPTER 16

CHAPTER 17

CHAPTER 18

CHAPTER 19. China............................................... 189

CHAPTER 20

CHAPTER 21. Credit Cards....................................211

CHAPTER 22 South Koreans all this is not very interesting .............................................. .222

CHAPTER 23

EPILOGUE. You can't run away from the past .................... 249

AFTERWORD............................................... 256

APPLICATION. The Ten Rules of Camp 14 ................262

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.............................................. 268

NOTES................................................... 272

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EDUCATIONAL MOMENT

The first memory in his life was the execution. His mother took him to a wheat field near the Taedong River, where the guards had already rounded up several thousand prisoners. Excited by so many people, the boy crawled under the feet of the adults into the very first row and saw the guards tying a man to a wooden pole.

Shin In Geun was only four years old, and he, of course, still could not understand the meaning of the speech delivered before the execution. But, being present at dozens of other executions in next years, he will hear more than once the head of the firing squad, addressed to the crowd, that the wise and just government of North Korea gave the condemned to death the opportunity to "atone his fault" through hard work, but he rejected this generous offer and refused to embark on the path of correction. To prevent the prisoner from shouting the last curses at the state, which was about to take his life, the guards stuffed a handful of river pebbles into his mouth, and then covered his head with a bag.

That - the very first - time, Shin watched with all his eyes as three guards took the condemned man at gunpoint. Each of them fired three shots. The roar of shots frightened the boy so much that he recoiled and fell backward on the ground, but hurriedly got to his feet and managed to see how the guards untied the limp, blood-stained body from the post, wrapped him in a blanket and threw him onto the cart.

In Camp 14, a special prison for political enemies of socialist Korea, more than two prisoners were allowed to gather only during executions. Everyone had to come to them without exception. Demonstrative executions (and the fear they instilled in people) were used in the camp as an educational moment.

Shin's teachers (and tutors) at the camp were guards. They chose his mother and father. They taught him to always remember that any violator of the camp order deserves death. On the hillside near his school was inscribed the motto: ALL LIFE ACCORDING TO RULES AND REGULATIONS. The boy learned well the ten rules of behavior in the camp, "Ten Commandments", as he later called them, and still remembers them by heart. The first rule was: "those who are detained while trying to escape are shot immediately."

Blaine Harden

Escape from the death camp

North Korean citizens remaining in the camps

ESCAPE FROM CAMP 14:

One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea

to Freedom in the West

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— Damien Kirby, The Oregonian

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Foreword

educational moment

Shin In Geun was only four years old, and he, of course, still could not understand the meaning of the speech delivered before the execution. But as he attended dozens of other executions in the years to come, he would hear more than once the head of the firing squad tell the crowd that the wise and just government of North Korea gave the death-row man the opportunity to “redeem himself” through hard work, but he rejected this generous offer and refused to take the path of correction. To prevent the prisoner from shouting the last curses at the state, which was about to take his life, the guards stuffed a handful of river pebbles into his mouth, and then covered his head with a bag.

Shin's teachers (and tutors) at the camp were guards. They chose his mother and father. They taught him to always remember that any violator of the camp order deserves death. On the hillside near his school was inscribed the motto: ALL LIFE ACCORDING TO RULES AND REGULATIONS. The boy learned well the ten rules of behavior in the camp, "Ten Commandments", as he later called them, and still remembers them by heart. The first rule was: "detainees attempting to escape are shot immediately."

Ten years after that execution, the guards again gathered a huge crowd on the field, only next to the wooden pole they also built a gallows.

This time he arrived there in the back seat of a car driven by one of the guards. Shin's hands were handcuffed, and his eyes were covered with a rag. His father was sitting next to him. Also in handcuffs and also with a bandage over his eyes.

They have just been released from the underground prison located inside Camp 14, where they spent eight months. Before their release, they were given a condition: to give a non-disclosure agreement on everything that happened to them underground.

In this prison, inside the prison, Shin and his father were tortured to force a confession. The guards wanted to know about the failed escape attempt by Shin's mother and his only brother. The soldiers undressed Shin, hung him over the fire and slowly lowered him. He passed out as his flesh began to fry.

However, he did not confess to anything. He simply had nothing to confess. He did not plan to run away with his mother and brother. He sincerely believed in what he was taught from birth in the camp: firstly, it was impossible to escape, and secondly, having heard any talk about escaping, it was necessary to report them to the guards.

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Foreword

educational moment

On that very first time, Shin watched with all his eyes as three guards took aim at the condemned man. Each of them fired three shots. The roar of shots frightened the boy so much that he recoiled and fell backward on the ground, but hurriedly got to his feet and managed to see how the guards untied the limp, blood-stained body from the post, wrapped him in a blanket and threw him onto the cart.

Shin's teachers (and tutors) at the camp were guards. They chose his mother and father. They taught him to always remember that any violator of the camp order deserves death. On the hillside near his school was inscribed the motto: ALL LIFE ACCORDING TO RULES AND REGULATIONS. The boy learned well the ten rules of behavior in the camp, "Ten Commandments", as he later called them, and still remembers them by heart. The first rule was: "detainees attempting to escape are shot immediately."

Ten years after that execution, the guards again gathered a huge crowd on the field, only next to the wooden pole they also built a gallows.

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About the book

There are no “problems with human rights” in our country, because everyone in it lives a decent and happy life.

"Harden's book is not only a fascinating story told with ruthless directness, but also a storehouse of hitherto unknown information about a mysterious, like a black hole, country."

— Bill Keller, The New York Times

"An outstanding book by Blaine Harden" Escape from the death camp tells us about the dictatorial regime reigning in one of the most terrible corners of our world, much more than can be learned from thousands of textbooks ... "Escape from the death camp" the story of Sheen's epiphany, his escape and attempts to start a new life, this is a bewitching, amazing book that should be made required reading in schools and colleges.
This heartbreaking eyewitness account of systematically monstrous atrocities is similar to The Diary of Anne Frank or Dita Pran's account of fleeing the Pol Pot genocide in Cambodia in that it is impossible to read without fear that your heart will stop in horror ... Harden on Each page of the book shines with its writing skills.
– The Seattle Times

“Blaine Harden's book is unparalleled. "Escape from the death camp"- this is a bewitching description of a nightmarish anti-humanism, an unbearable tragedy, even more terrible because all this horror continues to happen right at this moment, and there is no end in sight.

— Terry Hong Christian Science Monitor

"If you have a heart, then "Escape from the death camp" Blaine Harden will change you once and for all ... Harden introduces us to Shin, showing him not as some kind of hero, but as a simple person trying to figure out everything that was done to him, and everything that he had to go through for the chance to survive. As a result, "Escape from the death camp" turns into a guilty verdict against the inhuman regime and a monument to those who tried with all their might not to lose their human appearance in the face of evil.

"An outstanding story, a heart-searing story about the awakening of a personality in a prisoner of the most severe prison in North Korea."

– The Wall Street Journal

“While US policymakers wonder what the recent death of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il might bring, people who read this fascinating book will better understand the brutality of the regime that remains in this strange state. Without digressing from the main theme of the book, Harden masterfully weaves information about the history, political and social structure of North Korea into the narrative, providing a rich historical background for Shin's misadventures.

– Associated Press

"In terms of dynamics, accompanied by wonderful luck and displays of unparalleled courage, the story of Shin's escape from the camp is not inferior to the classic film" big escape". If we talk about it as an episode from the life of an ordinary person, then it tears the heart to shreds. If everything that he had experienced, if the fact that he saw his family only as rivals in the battle for subsistence, was shown in some feature film, you would think that the screenwriter was too fantasized. But perhaps the most important thing about this book is that it raises one issue that they try to keep quiet about, the question that the West will sooner or later have to answer for its inaction.

– The Daily Beast

“Amazing biographical book… If you really want to understand what is going on inside the rogue state, you simply must read it. This is a heartbreaking story of courage and a desperate struggle for survival, dark in places, but ultimately life-affirming."

– CNN

IN " Escape from the death camp» Harden describes the whole amazing odyssey of Shin, from the first childhood memories - a public execution, which he witnessed at the age of four - to his activities in South Korean and American human rights organizations ... By retelling the almost impossible story of Shin's release, Harden sheds light on the moral scourge of humanity, existing 12 times longer than the Nazi concentration camps. The reader will never be able to forget the boyish and wise beyond his years Shin's smile - a new symbol of freedom defeating totalitarianism.

— Will Lislo, Minneapolis Star Tribune

“Harden, with great skill, intertwines assessments of the current state of the entire North Korean society with the personal history of the life of the hero of the book. He clearly and clearly shows us the internal mechanics of this totalitarian state, its international politics and the consequences of the humanitarian catastrophes taking place in it ... This small book makes a strong impression. The author operates only with facts and refuses to exploit the emotions of the reader, but these facts are enough to make our hearts ache, so that we begin to look for additional information and wonder how we could accelerate the onset of big changes.

— Damien Kirby, The Oregonian

“A story that is fundamentally different from all others ... Especially from other books about North Korea, including the one I wrote. "Escape from the death camp" shows us the unparalleled brutality on which the regime of Kim Jong Il rested. Veteran foreign journalist Blaine Harden from The Washington Post leads his story simply masterfully ... An honest book, you can see it on every page.

“Harden tells a story that is breathtaking. The reader follows as Shin becomes aware of the existence outside world, normal human relationships, devoid of evil and hatred, how he finds hope ... and how painfully he goes to a new life. A book that every adult should read.

– Library Journal

“When we get to know the main character, doomed to backbreaking forced labor, deadly enmity with his own kind and life in a world where there is not a drop of human warmth, it seems to us that we are reading a dystopian thriller. But it's not fantasy, it's real biography Shin Dong Hyuk."

– Publishers Weekly

"A bone-chilling, amazing story of escaping from a country no one knows anything about."

– Kirkus Reviews

"Talking about amazing life Sheena, Harden opens our eyes to North Korea that exists in reality, and not in high-profile newspaper headlines, and sings of the human desire to remain human.

"Blaine Harden from Washington Post is an experienced reporter who has traveled to many hot spots, such as the Congo, Serbia and Ethiopia. And all these countries, he makes clear in no uncertain terms, can be considered quite successful compared to North Korea ... For this dark, terrifying, but, in the end, gives a certain hope book about a man with a crippled soul, who survived only thanks to a fortunate combination of circumstances and who did not find happiness even in freedom, Harden deserves not just admiration, but much, much more.

– Literary Review

“Shin’s life story, which at times is simply painful to read, tells of his physical and psychological escape from a closed prison society where there is no place for human feelings, and a journey to the joys and complexities of life in free world where a person can feel like a person.

"This year there will be a lot good books. But this book is absolutely unique… Shin Dong Hyuk – only person, who was born in a North Korean political prison camp, who managed to escape and leave the country. He described his adventures in detail in conversations with veteran foreign journalist Blaine Harden, who later wrote this outstanding book ... I cannot say that there are answers to the questions posed in the book. But one question is very important. And it sounds like this: “Now American schoolchildren are arguing about why President Franklin D. Roosevelt did not bomb railways leading to the Nazi death camps. But literally in a generation, their children may ask why Western countries have been inactive, looking at extremely clear and understandable satellite images of Kim Jong Il's camps. Reading this book is hard. But we have to".

– Don Graham, Chairman of the Board of Directors The Washington Post

"An unforgettable adventure, the coming-of-age story of a man who had the scariest childhood imaginable"

– Slate

Sheen's map of Camp 14

On the big map:

Taedong River

Camp fence - Camp fence

Guard post - Guard posts

1. The house where Shin Dong Hyuk lived

2. The field where the executions took place

3. Shin School

4. The place where Shin's class was attacked by the children of the guards

Source 5The dam where Shin worked and fished out the bodies of the drowned

6. The pig farm where Shin worked

7The Garment Factory Where Shin Learned About The Outside World

8The hedgerow where Shin escaped from the camp

On a small map:

China - China

Russia - Russia

Camp 14 - Camp 14

Korea Bay

Pyongyang – Pyongyang

Sea of Japan - Sea of Japan

Yellow Sea - Yellow Sea

South Korea - South Korea

Shin's escape route from Camp 14 to China

Approximate journey length: 560 kilometers

On the big map:

China - China

Yalu River - Yalu River

North Korea - North Korea

Camp 14 - Camp 14

Taedong River

Bukchang - Bukchang

Maengsan - Mansan

Hamhung - Hamhung

Korea Bay

Pyongyang – Pyongyang

Yellow Sea - Yellow Sea

South Korea - South Korea

Seoul - Seoul

Helong – Helong

Russia - Russia

Tumen River

Musan - Musan

Chongjin – Chongjin

Gilju - Kilju

Sea of Japan - Sea of Japan

On the small map:

Map name - KOREA REGION

Otherwise, everything is the same as in any geographical atlas.

Preface. educational moment

The first memory in his life was the execution.

His mother took him to a wheat field near the Taedong River, where the guards had already rounded up several thousand prisoners. Excited by so many people, the boy crawled under the feet of the adults into the very first row and saw the guards tying a man to a wooden pole.

Shin's teachers (and tutors) at the camp were guards. They chose his mother and father. They taught him to always remember that any violator of the camp order deserves death. On the hillside near his school was inscribed the motto: ALL LIFE ACCORDING TO RULES AND REGULATIONS. The boy learned well the ten rules of behavior in the camp, "Ten Commandments", as he later called them, and still remembers them by heart. The first rule was: Detainees attempting to escape are shot immediately.».

Ten years after that execution, the guards again gathered a huge crowd on the field, only next to the wooden pole they also built a gallows.

The guards at the camp school never taught Shin what any North Korean schoolboy knows by heart: that the American "imperialist degenerates" are plotting to attack his socialist homeland, ruin and humiliate it, that the "puppet regime" of South Korea dutifully serves its American overlord, that North Korea is a great country, the courage and wisdom of its leaders is envied by the whole world ... He simply did not even know about the fact of the existence of South Korea, China or the United States.

Unlike his compatriots, little Shin was not surrounded by the ubiquitous portraits of Dear Leader Kim Jong Il. Moreover, he never saw any photographs or statues of his father, the Great Leader Kim Il Sung, who remains the Eternal President of the DPRK despite his death in 1994.

Although Shin was not so important for the regime, to spend time and effort on his indoctrination, he was taught to inform on relatives and classmates from an early age. As a reward for squealing, he was given food, and also allowed, along with the guards, to beat the children devoted to them. Classmates, in turn, pawned and beat him. When the guard removed the blindfold from his eyes, Shin saw the crowd, the wooden pole, the gallows, and thought that he was about to be executed. However, no one began to put a handful of stones in his mouth. The handcuffs were removed from him. The soldier led him to the front row of the waiting crowd. He and his father were assigned the role of observers.

The guards dragged a middle-aged woman to the gallows, and tied a young man to a post. They were Shin's mother and older brother.

The soldier tightened the noose around his mother's neck. The mother tried to catch Shin's eye, but he averted his eyes. When the convulsions stopped and her body went limp, three guards shot Brother Shin. Each of them fired three shots.

Shin watched them die and was glad he wasn't in their shoes. He was very angry at his mother and brother for trying to escape. And although he did not admit this to anyone for 15 years, Shin was sure that it was he who was to blame for their death.

Introduction. He never heard the word "love"

Nine years after his mother's execution, Shin squeezed between rows of electrified barbed wire and ran across a snowy plain. It happened on November 2, 2005. Before him, no one born in North Korean political prison camps had ever escaped. According to all available data, Shin was the first and on this moment the only one who made it.

He was 23, and outside the barbed-wire camp, he did not know a single living soul.

A month later, he crossed the border to the Chinese side. Two years later he was already living in South Korea. Four years later, he settled in Southern California and began working as an authorized representative of the American human rights organization Liberty in North Korea, or LiNK.

In California, he rode his bike to work, supported the Cleveland Indians baseball team (because South Korean Shin Soo Choo played for them), and ate lunch at the In-N-Out Burger two or three times a week, believing that hamburgers You won't find better ones there in the whole world.

Now his name is Shin Dong Hyuk. He changed his name immediately after arriving in South Korea, thus trying to start a new life - the life of a free man. Today he is a handsome man with a tenacious, always wary look. One of the dentists in Los Angeles had to work hard on his teeth, which he had no opportunity to clean in the camp. In general, he is almost perfectly healthy. But his body has turned into clear evidence of all the hardships and hardships of his childhood spent in one of the labor camps, the very existence of which North Korea categorically denies.

From constant malnutrition, he remained very short and thin: his height is less than 170 centimeters, and his weight is only 55 kilograms. His hands are twisted from overwork. The lower back and buttocks are covered with burn scars. On the skin of the abdomen, just above the pubis, punctures are visible from the iron hook that held his body over the torture fire. His ankles were scarred from the fetters by which he was hung upside down in solitary confinement. His legs from ankles to knees are mangled with burns and scars from the electrified barbed wire cordons that failed to hold him in Camp 14.

Shin is about the same age as Kim Jong Un, the plump, chubby third son and Kim Cher Il's official "great heir". Being almost peers, these two antipodes personify endless privileges and total poverty, that is, the two poles of life in North Korea, a formally classless society, where in fact the fate of a person depends entirely on blood relationship and the merits or sins of his ancestors.

Kim Jong Un was born a communist prince and raised behind palace walls. Under an assumed name, he completed his secondary education in Switzerland before returning to North Korea to study at an elite university named after his grandfather. Due to its origin, it is above any laws and has unlimited possibilities. In 2010, despite complete absence military experience, was promoted to the rank of General of the Army.

Shin was born a slave and grew up behind a fence made of barbed wire, through which electricity was passed. high voltage. He received elementary skills in reading and counting at the camp school. His blood was hopelessly stained by the crimes of his father's brothers, and therefore he had no rights and opportunities. The state had sentenced him in advance: overwork and early death from diseases caused by malnutrition ... and all this without trial, investigation, the possibility of appeal ... and in complete secrecy.

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