Like the diary of anne frank or dith pran s account of his flight from pol pot s genocide in cambodia, it s impossible to read this excruciatingly personal. Shins existence in the camp and his escape to the unknown world beyond its fences is the remarkable and harrowing tale that former washington post reporter blaine harden recounts in spare, unadorned prose in escape from camp 14. In escape from camp 14, acclaimed journalist blaine harden tells the story of shin donghyuk and, through. One man s remarkable odyssey from north korea to freedom in the west, harden chronicles shin s amazing journey, from his very first memory a public execution he. However, harden also discusses shins recent modifications to his story in an extended foreword to the book. More so than any other book on north korea, including my own, escape from camp 14 exposes the cruelty that is the underpinning of kim jong ils regime. Shin knew nothing of civilized existencehe saw his mother as a competitor for food, guards raised him to be a snitch, and he witnessed the. The text of escape from camp 14 consists of shins story as he presented it to blaine harden between 2006 and 2012.
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