Democratic People’s Republic of Korea: crimes against humanity revealed

Democratic People’s Republic of Korea: crimes against humanity revealed:

Democratic People’s Republic of Korea: crimes against humanity revealed

Shin Dong-hyuk was born in Political Prison Camp No. 14, the only known escapee from the so-called “total control zone” of a political prison camp in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK).

[Model of a prison camp No. 18 in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea © EPA/STR] “In front of all the inmates, political prisoners, and in front of my father and myself, my mother and older brother were publicly executed,” he said.

“My mother was hanged in front of me and my father.”

Jee Heon A, a victim of forced repatriation and forced abortion in DPRK, recalls a rare moment when a baby was born in the detention centre in the city of Chongjin of Hamgyong Province. The joyous moment took a tragic turn when a security agent told the new mother that she must drown her own child.

The mother pleaded for her baby’s life.

“But this agent kept beating this woman, the mother who just gave birth,” Jee Heon A said. “And the mother, with her shaking hands, picked up the baby and put the baby face down in the water. The baby stopped crying and we saw water bubbles coming out of the mouth of the baby.”