Camp 14: Total Control Zone
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- 2012
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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.
it I could do a lot.
Maybe it's hard for others to comprehend
the outside world was inconceivable to me.
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.
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
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.
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
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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