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The boy who grew up in North Korea’s labour camp 14
Shin Dong-hyuk was born in a North Korean punishment camp, where he endured appalling brutalities until he escaped, aged 23. Now his story is told in a harrowing documentary
Stephen Applebaum
The Guardian, Thursday 19 September 2013 17.01
’Executions were happening every week’ … Shin Dong-hyuk in an animated scene from Camp 14: Total Control Zone
Documentary-makers generally tackle torture at a distance. Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Act of Killing, for instance, introduced us to a charismatic killer from Indonesia’s anti-communist genocide who dances the cha-cha on the rooftop where he murdered hundreds of victims almost 50 years earlier. Camp 14: Total Control Zone is different. The German film-maker Marc Wiese’s film tells of horrors that could be happening as you read this, in North Korea, in prison camps so vast that they show up on Google Earth.