On January 2nd, 2005, Shin Dong-hyuk escaped from Camp 14, North Korea’s most secure prison. He is the only known prisoner to ...

LONDON (Reuters) - "Escape From Camp 14" makes for grim reading. Journalist Blaine Harden's account of a young man's life in and escape from a labour camp in secretive North Korea has drawn parallels ...

SEOUL, Jan 18 (Reuters) - A North Korean defector, whose dramatic escape from a brutal prison camp was the subject of a bestselling book, has changed key parts of his story and on Sunday apologised ...

Escape from Camp 14: One Man’s Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West, by Blaine Harden (Viking, 224 pp., $26.95) Explaining why socialism failed to gain traction in the United ...

The stories of people who survive in the midst of great obstacles are among my favorite titles of nonfiction. Even more compelling are those stories of people who are seeking freedom, an everyday ...

GENEVA, June 5 (Reuters) - North Korea's best-known defector, Shin Dong-hyuk, dreams of making the "impossible" happen one day - ridding his secretive homeland of the kind of brutal prison camps he ...

Before too much of a megillah is made of the recantation by the North Korean escapee Shin Dong-hyuk, let us mark a central point. He may have changed some details of his early life, as it was ...

(CNN) Catapulted into the international spotlight after the publication of a sensational biography in 2012, Shin Dong-hyuk became the most famous North Korean defector. A soft-spoken and shy man, Shin ...

A man that was born and raised in a workers camp in North Korea tells his story in this documentary. Very gripping and sad and the long pauses between the mans answers were heart breaking.