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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]
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.
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]
A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea, by Masaji Ishikawa, a memoir of escape to China; Dear Leader: My Escape from North Korea, a 2014 memoir by Jang Jin-sung. 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.
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]
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 .
North Korean prison camps are of two types: large internment camps for political prisoners (Kwan-li-so in Korean) and reeducation prison camps (Kyo-hwa-so in Korean), as North Korean prisons and re-education camp systems are very strict, food was control and hunger a weapon for re-education, many peasants were ordered to work on agricultural ...
A Thousand Miles to Freedom: My Escape from North Korea (French: Corée du Nord: 9 ans pour fuir l'enfer, Korean: 열한 살의 유서) is a 2012 memoir by Eunsun Kim, with Sébastien Falletti. It was translated into English by David Tian in 2015.