North Korea's Hidden Concentration Camps

Anderson Cooper reported in a 60 Minutes news segment, aired in May 2013, about the treacherous North Korean concentration camps located about fifty miles North of Pyongyang, the capitol. The report opens up in the most notorious prison, Camp 14, where Shin Dong-hyuk was born as he describes how three generations of a family are incarcerated if one family member is considered disloyal. He also tells of beatings endured or forced to watch disciplinary executions at the prison camp along with near starvation as a daily bowl of thin broth of cabbage gruel was fed to all of the prisoners.

The country's leader Kim Jong Un declares that North Korea has "the world's most advantageous human rights system." The dictatorship says its citizens chose the system in North Korea through their own will and that they are happy too. The dictatorship, however, has never been honest or truthful for more than six decades it has been in existence. So then it is no surprise that leader Kim Jong Un calls Shin Dong-hyuk "human scum" since his testimony is all based on lies about the country. 

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Bio: Shin Dong-hyuk is a human rights advocate and subject of the best-seller "Escape From Camp 14," which tells his story about being born and raised in a brutal political prison camp in North Korea. Shin is the only man known to have been born in and to have escaped such a facility. He's the founder and executive director of the group, Inside NK, where he raises awareness about North Korea's human rights abuses.