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Shin Dong-hyuk (born Shin In Geun, 19 November 1982 or 1980 [2]) is a North Korean-born human rights activist.He claims to be the only prisoner to have successfully escaped from a "total-control zone" grade internment camp in North Korea.
Lee Hyeon-seo (Korean: 이현서, born January 1980), [1] best known for her book, The Girl with Seven Names, is a North Korean defector and activist who lives in Seoul, South Korea, [2] where she is a student. She escaped from North Korea and later guided her family out of North Korea through China and Laos. [3]
Escape from Camp 14, by Blaine Harden, a 2012 biography of Shin Dong-hyuk, a North Korean defector who was born and raised in Kaechon internment camp. Every Falling Star: The True Story of How I Survived and Escaped North Korea, a 2016 book telling the story of Sungju Lee, a defector who grew up as an orphan in North Korea.
Park left North Korea in 2007, when she was 13. [18] According to her account published in The Telegraph in 2014, after her father "bribe[d] his way out of jail", the family began to plan their escape to China, but Park's older sister Eunmi left for China early without notifying them. [20]
Kaechon Internment Camp (Korean: 개천 제14호 관리소, also spelled Kae'chŏn or Gaecheon) is a labor camp in North Korea for political prisoners and descendants of alleged criminals. The official name for the camp is Kwan-li-so (Penal-labor colony) No. 14. The camp is commonly known as Camp 14.
February 14, 1918 – French fighter pilot Roland Garros escaped to rejoin the French army after several attempts. July 23/24, 1918 – Holzminden officers' prisoner-of-war camp. Ten of 29 British officers made their way to freedom, making this "the most successful escape from a German prison camp during the First World War". [8]
His third book came out in 2012 titled Escape from Camp 14. It is an official biography of North Korean defector Shin Dong-hyuk. [6] [7] [8] In January 2015, Harden announced that Shin had admitted to lying about several aspects of his story. [9] Harden's fourth book The Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot was released in March 2015. [10]
Jin Gyeong-suk (Korean: 진경숙; 24 June 1980 – Dec 31, 2004), also known as Jin Kyung-sook, was a North Korean woman who, after successfully defecting to South Korea in 2002, was arrested in China two years later for conducting espionage and forcefully deported back to North Korea, where she was tortured and murdered.