With a New Foreword The heartwrenching New York Times bestseller about the only known person born inside a North Korean prison Camp to have escaped.
It is a tale of endurance and courage, survival and hope..
Escape from Camp 14 offers an unequalled inside account of one of the world\'s darkest nations.
Harden\'s harrowing narrative exposes this hidden dystopia, focusing on an extraordinary young man who came of age inside the highest security prison in the highest security state.
These camps are clearly visible in satellite photographs, yet North Korea\'s government denies they exist.
Between 150, 000 and 200, 000 people work as slaves in its political prison camps.
It is also a human rights catastrophe.
North Korea is hungry, bankrupt, and armed with nuclear weapons.
Few foreigners are allowed in, and few North Koreans are able to leave.
The late "Dear Leader" Kim Jong Il was recognized throughout the world, but his country remains sealed as his third son and chosen heir, Kim Jong Eun, consolidates power.
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.
In 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.
No one, that is, except Shin Dong-hyuk.
No one born and raised in these camps is known to have escaped.
North Korea\'s political prison camps have existed twice as long as Stalin\'s Soviet gulags and twelve times as long as the Nazi concentration camps.
Blaine Harden\'s latest book, King of Spies, will be available from Viking in Fall 2017.
With a New Foreword The heartwrenching New York Times bestseller about the only known person born inside a North Korean prison Camp to have escaped
