Camp 14: Total Control Zone Page #3

the women put up with everything.

They hope that their lives will be easier

if a guard likes them and

they have his child.

One example:
there was a women I liked.

Most of the female inmates were attractive.

Before they came to the camp, they

usually led a life of affluence.

That's why they had

particularly pretty faces.

When I liked a woman,

I called her and took her home.

She knew she wasn't allowed to refuse.

Otherwise she would be shot.

It was rare, but occasionally the women

who were with us guards in this way

got pregnant.

Then we thought up some

accusation and killed them.

I saw that with my own eyes.

A woman was pregnant.

She already had a big belly.

A guard had got her pregnant.

While she was pregnant the guard hung

the woman from the branch of a tree

and cruelly beat her to death with a whip.

Geneva

...friend from North Korea, Donghuyk Shin,

who used to be also a political

prisoner, was born in a prison camp

in North Korea and was

finally able in 2005 to escape

and we are very happy to have

you with us here today.

Thank you for inviting

me to this conference.

According to officials figures

from the South Korean government

around two hundred thousand prisoners

are currently interned

in North Korean camps.

I think there are around twenty, thirty

thousand inmates in Camp 14, where I lived.

My parents didn't know each other

before their time in the camp.

My father received my mother as a reward

for good forced labour.

They were married by a guard.

That's how it came about that I was born

in the labour camp.

It was clear that I would have

to live there until I died.

Camp 14 is a death camp,

nobody is released from there.

We knew that we had to obey

the guards unconditionally.

In all the years I was there,

I never saw anyone complaining.

I'm an American journalist.

Do you speak English a little bit?

A little?

I want to make an interview with him

in a few words about his personal ...

Through my work with LINK, a

human rights organization

I have been to lectures

all around the world.

In the United States, Canada,

Europe and even Japan.

But I never felt in any of these

places that I really arrived.

The public executions in the camp

weren't restricted to adult inmates.

That could happen to children too.

I was seven or eight.

Every week our teacher checked our pockets.

There were around thirty-five

children in the class.

The teacher called out some names

and searched the pockets.

Once a few grains of corn were

found in a girl's pocket.

When we stole food, we usually

swallowed it immediately.

But she was unfortunately caught.

The teacher put the grains on the

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