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Add a review Your Rating: Your Comment:. Escape from Freedom by Erich Fromm. He wore handcuffs and a blindfold fashioned froma rag. His father, also handcuffed and blindfolded, sat beside him in the car. They had been released from eight months in an underground prison inside Camp 14, Asa condition of their release, they had signed documents promising never to discuss what had happened to them underground.
In that prison within a prison, guards tried to torture a confession out of Shin and his father. Guards stripped Shin, tied ropes to his ankles and wrists, and suspended him from a hook in the ceiling. They lowered him over a fire. He passed out when his flesh began to burn. But he confessed nothing. He had nothing to confess. He had not conspired with his mother and brother to escape. He believed what PREFACE guards had taught him since his birth inside the camp: He could never escape and he must inform on anyone who talks about trying, Not even in his dreams had Shin fantasized about life on the outside.
North Korea is a great country whose brave and brilliant leaders are the envy of the world, Indeed, he knew nothing of the existence of South Korea, China, or the United States. Unlike his countrymen, he did not grow up with the ubiquitous photograph of his Dear Leader, as Kim Jong II was called. Although he had not been important enough for brainwashing, Shin had been schooled to inform on his family and on his classmates. He won food as a reward and joined guards in beating up children he betrayed.
His classmates, in turn, tattled on him and beat him up. When a guard removed his blindfold, when he saw the crowd, the wooden pole, and the gallows, Shin believed he was about to be exe- cuted. No pebbles, though, were forced into his mouth. His handcuffs were removed. A guard led him to the front of the crowd. He and his father would be spectators. Guards dragged a middle-aged woman to the gallows and tied a young man to the wooden pole.
They were Shin's mother and his older brother. She tried to catch his eye. He looked away. As he watched them die, Shin was relieved it was not him.
He was angry with his mother and brother for planning an escape. Although he would not admit it to anyone for fifteen years, he knew he was responsible for their executions. It was Janu- ary 2, Before then, no one born in a North Korean political prison camp had ever escaped.
As far as can be determined, Shin is still the only one to do it. He was twenty-three years old and knew no one outside the fence. Within a month, he had walked into China. Within two years, he was living in South Korea. His name is now Shin Dong-hyuk. He is hand- some, with quick, wary eyes. His overall physical — 4 wire fence. He was educated in a camp school to read and count at a health is excellent.
His body, though, is a road map of the hardships of f rudimentary level. For him, nothing does not exist. Stunted by malnutrition, he is short and slight—five feet six inches, about one hundred and twenty pounds.
His arms are bowed from child- hood labor, His lower back and buttocks are scarred with burns from the was possible, His state-prescribed career trajectory was hard labor and anearly death from disease brought on by chronic hunger—all without a charge or a trial or an appeal, and all in secrecy.
His ankles are scarred by shackles, In stories of concentration camp survival, there is a conventional nar- tative arc.
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