Escape from Camp 14 : one man's remarkable odyssey from North Korea to freedom in the West /
Twenty-six years ago, Shin Dong-hyuk was born inside Camp 14, one of five sprawling political prisons in the mountains of North Korea. This is the gripping, terrifying story of his escape from this no-exit prison-- to freedom in South Korea.
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New York :
Viking,
2012.
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Table of Contents:
- Never heard the word "love"
- The boy who ate his mother's lunch
- School days
- The upper crust
- Mother tries to escape
- Mother tries to escape, version two
- This son of a bitch won't do
- The sun shines even on mouse holes
- Avoiding mother's eyes
- Reactionary son of a bitch
- Working man
- Napping on the farm
- Sewing and snitching
- Deciding not to snitch
- Preparing to run
- The fence
- Stealing
- Riding north
- The border
- China
- Asylum
- K'uredit k'adus
- South Koreans are not so interested
- U.S.A.