Camp 14: Total Control Zone

Synopsis: Shin Dong-Huyk was born on November 19, 1983 as a political prisoner in a North Korean re-education camp. He was a child of two prisoners who had been married by order of the wardens. He spent his entire childhood and youth in Camp 14, in fact a death camp. He was forced to labor since he was six years old and suffered from hunger, beatings and torture, always at the mercy of the wardens. He knew nothing about the world outside the barbed-wire fences. At the age of 23, with the help of an older prisoner, he managed to escape. For months he traveled through North Korea and China and finally to South Korea, where he encountered a world completely strange to him.
Director(s): Marc Wiese
  2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.5
Metacritic:
70
Rotten Tomatoes:
100%
Year:
2012
106 min
57 Views


I still suffer from nightmares.

It's better than the

beginning of my stay here.

But I still have nightmares.

It's not as bad as used to be.

It's become part of my every day life.

I try to ignore the nightmares.

I'm resting, so I don't

have to do other things.

I'm sitting in the room without

thoughts and without doing anything.

This helps me kill time.

I don't want to think about anything.

Many people have called me recently,

they ask me to tell my story

but I politely refuse.

I often feel very tired and exhausted.

That's why I say no to such requests.

Of course if I think about

it I could do a lot.

Maybe it's hard for others to comprehend

the outside world was inconceivable to me.

I had never seen the world on

the other side of defence.

I had an idea that there was a country

of North Korea and a bigger world

but I thought that world would

be exactly like the labour camp.

I couldn't conceive of anything else.

I started with forced

labour when I was six.

When I started in school.

I was just a little boy.

The children went into the

mines and push the wagons out.

The adults had loaded with them coal

and we gather all the coal that

had fall out to the ground.

CAMP 14

TOTAL CONTROL ZONE

What did the terrain

behind the camp look like?

There was a long mountain range.

Was there anything on top of the hills?

Yes, a barbed wire fence.

This was the guards' village.

It had an extra fence around it.

Their own village with a fence.

A secured area in a secure camp.

That sounds crazy.

Were the guards scared of revolts?

That was the coal mine.

This is where the prisoners lived.

That's where I lived with my mother.

I lived with my mother in a

small house in the camp.

There was just one room and we slept there.

This was also the kitchen.

There was no furniture. We had no

options but to sleep on the concrete floor.

In the wintertime we put on

as many clothes as possible.

The picture of the camp is almost finished.

Where did the public executions take place?

Here, in a perfectly ordinary field.

The victims were tied to posts.

They faced the river.

Shin, what is your first

memory as a kid in the camp?

It's nothing special.

There's no particular

event that I remember.

Or maybe yes, when I went to a

public executions with my mother.

I was very young, maybe four

years old. That was the first time.

I remember the poster about the execution.

There was always a poster that announce

the day and the time the executions take place.

Several thousands spectators

came to the executions.

Except for the inmates who had to work

all the prisoners were forced

to appear at these executions.

After the accused had been

tied to the post with a rope

a guard or someone higher-up came and said

the prisoners had to work hard

to serve their sentences.

These inmates hadn't work hard

and they hadn't been obedient.

That's why they would been executed.

Immediately after this declaration

they were shot with machine guns.

When the shots were fired I panicked, That is

my first memory of my childhood in the camp.

I have a cold. That's why I don't really have an appetite. Oh-Young-Nam ex

officer secret police service ministry of internal security, North Korea

I haven't been sleeping well either.

That's why it's really hard for me.

I knew yesterday that I needed to go to bed early

for the interview today but I didn't sleep well.

Kwon Hyuk

ex commander of the guards

Camp 22, North Korea

Can I make myself

comfortable on this chair?

It doesn't take much to be

arrested in North Korea.

In the North Korean system you're

arrested if you name the leaders

Kim Il-Sung and King Jong-Il without

using the address 'Tongji, comrade'.

That'll land you in a camp.

In North Korea people smoke by filling

the papers with loose tobacco.

Since there isn't enough

paper for these cigarettes

some people use the "Rodong

Workers Newspaper" instead.

They're sent to a camp because

they failed to notice

that newspaper contained a portrait

of the leader Kim Il-Sung.

We never did the arrests during the day.

That was always at night, in secret,

without the neighbours noticing.

The arrested individuals weren't allowed

to take anything with them.

If an entire family was brought

to a camp for political prisoners

the family members had no idea why they

had even been sent to prison camp.

Often only the accused did know the reason.

The rule in the prison camp

is that the arrested family

is never allowed to be together again.

Authentic footage of a police interrogation in North Korea,

smuggled out of the country by a human rights organization.

After being deported to a labour camp,

you're not treated as human beings anymore.

You're treated like animals.

We, the guards, screamed at them: "At least

as pigs you would have been of use!"

In the camp the life of an inmate

is worthless than the life of a worm.

They can't defend themselves,

not even when they're being beaten.

I could do anything with the

prisoners that I felt like.

The decision whether to kill them or let

them live was completely up to me.

It's a shame that I can

only see my home from afar.

But at the border I can be a

little closer to North Korea.

I can at least see my home,

even though from afar.

My home is over there.

It's North Korea.

When I arrived in South Korea I was

picked up from the airport in Seoul.

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