Escape from Camp 14: One Man’s Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West

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With a New ForewordnnThe heartwrenching New York Times bestseller about the only known person born inside a North Korean prison camp to have escaped. Blaine Harden’s recent book, King of Spies, will be available from Viking in Fall 2017.nnNorth Korea’s political prison camps have existed twice so long as Stalin’s Soviet gulags and twelve times so long as the Nazi concentration camps. No one born and raised in these camps is known to have escaped. No one, that is, apart from Shin Dong-hyuk.nnIn Escape From Camp 14, Blaine Harden unlocks the secrets of the world’s most repressive totalitarian state through the story of Shin’s shocking imprisonment and his astounding getaway. Shin knew nothing of civilized existence–he saw his mother as a competitor for food, guards raised him to be a snitch, and he witnessed the execution of his mother and brother.nnThe late “Dear Leader” Kim Jong Il was once recognized during the world, but his country remains sealed as his third son and chosen heir, Kim Jong Eun, consolidates power. Few foreigners are allowed in, and few North Koreans may be able to leave. North Korea is hungry, bankrupt, and armed with nuclear weapons. Additionally it is a human rights catastrophe. Between 150,000 and 200,000 people work as slaves in its political prison camps. These camps are clearly visible in satellite photographs, yet North Korea’s government denies they exist.nnHarden’s harrowing narrative exposes this hidden dystopia, focusing on an atypical young man who came of age inside the highest security prison in the highest security state. Escape from Camp 14 offers an unequalled inside account of one of the most world’s darkest nations. This is a tale of endurance and courage, survival and hope.

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