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Escape from Camp 14 [large type] : one man's remarkable odyssey from North Korea to freedom in the West / Blaine Harden.

by Harden, Blaine.

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Thorndike, Me. : Center Point Large Print, 2012.

Shin, Dong-hyuk.

Political prisoners -- Korea (North) -- Biography.

Internment camps -- Korea (North)

Forced labor -- Korea (North)

Korea (North) -- Social conditions.

9781611734522 (lg. print) :

1611734525 (lg. print)

302 p. (large print) : ill., maps ; 22 cm.

Center Point large print ed.

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.

Twenty-six years ago, Shin Dong-hyuk was born inside Camp 14, one of five sprawling political prisons in the mountains of North Korea. Located about 55 miles north of Pyongyang, the labor camp is a "complete control district," a no-exit prison where the only sentence is life. Inmates work 12- to 15-hour days in the camp -- mining coal, building dams, sewing military uniforms -- until they are executed, killed in work-related accidents, or die of illness often triggered by hunger. No one born in Camp 14, or in any North Korean political prison camp, has escaped. Until Shin.

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