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

Before I visited, I read everything I could get my hands on, lots of different books from different people and perspectives. I had read countless articles and discussions on the Internet but it wasn't until fairly recently that I actually discovered you could visit (a lot of people have the common misconception that the borders are closed to everyone).

> Have you read any of the memoirs written by people who escaped the prison camps?

Actually, the first book I read about NK was titled "Escape from Camp 14", it's about a defector named Shin Dong-hyuk who was actually born in the camps and managed to escape. His testimony is absolutely harrowing and his experience truly sounds like hell on earth.

I believe the political situation is extremely complicated and there are a lot of reasons why the status quo is maintained. I really do hope that one day the country will be unified again.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Escape-Camp-14-remarkable-odyssey/dp/0330519549

I think you may like this book:

.com Link

.co.uk link (where I am)

Both are prime and are well under $20, so please use the extra money to gift other peoples :)

John Green talks about the book here.

Used is fine for me! labor day

Either Escape From Camp 14 or an Adventure Time OGN for me! C:

"there is an idea of a Patrick Bateman, some kind of abstraction, but there is no real me, only an entity, something illusory, and though I can hide my cold gaze and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable: I simply am not there.”