Shin said that he did not spend his entire North Korean life at Camp 14. He said that he was tortured in Camp 14 in 2002, as punishment for escaping from Camp 18. Much of this, he said, is as described in Escape from Camp 14. Shin Dong-hyuk (Shin In Geun) was born inside the North Korean internment camp named Camp 14. KBA 543. This is not applicable to Shin, who was born in Camp 14, yet what Shin has in common with many of these individuals is his ignorance about what he has done wrong. Camp 14. Kim Yong Escape from Camp 14, the story of Shin's awakening, escape and new beginning, is a riveting, remarkable book that should be required reading in every high-school or college-civics class. Camp 14 is the prison camp Shin Dong-Hyuk, the subject of many new books and documentaries, escaped from. Both parents were sent to the camps as punishment for something that a relative … Shin’s book contains vivid details of the torture and hard labour he endured in Camp 14. According to Shin Dong Hyuk, Camp 14 was originally established south of the Taedong River, were Camp 18 lies today. In North Korea, no trial is required before people are imprisoned: people are simply snatched from their homes by the National Security Agency and find themselves in labor camps. However, Shin has admitted that he had been moved to less-severe-by-North-Korean-standards Camp … He is the only known person to both be born in a North Korean prison camp … "Escape from Camp 14" tells the true story of a North Korean prison camp survivor Shin Dong-hyuk was the only known person born in a camp that survived escape Book offers glimpse into one of … Shin said he was then released into the general camp population. Shin’s knowledge of the camp’s geography and the function of its many buildings has impressed several human rights investigators. Overview. Shin spent the first 23 years of his life in a prison camp where, he recounted in the harrowing Escape from Camp 14, he was tortured and subjected to forced labour before escaping in … 'Escape From Camp 14': Inside North Korea's Gulag Shin Dong-hyuk is the only person known to have been born in North Korea's prison camps … For the next three years, he worked in a mine, on a farm, and then in a uniform factory. Escape from Camp 14 is the story of Shin Dong-hyuk, who is the only known person to have been born in and escape from a North Korean labor camp.The book’s author, Blaine Harden, interviewed Shin many times and has also spoken with former camp guards and North Korean traders. His parents were set up as a reward for good behavior in the camp. Though maintaining that he was born there, he stated that, when he was young, his family was transferred to the less severe Camp 18, and spent several years there. Shin claims that in 1983, Camp 14 was moved north of the river, and Camp 18 was established at its former location on the southern bank.