Escapee from NK Concentration camp

August · 04-13-12, 10:55 PM

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/04...ntration-camp/

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To understand North Korea, you must first wrap your mind around the utter horror of its gulag system. More than 200,000 men, women and children are currently interned in these concentration death camps. Only 3 people have ever escaped. Fox News interviewed one of them this week. The man's name is Shin Dong-hyuk. He was born inside Camp 14, the notorious labor camp for political dissidents just south of the North Korean capital, Pyongyang.

Three generations suffer for one persons political crime. Imagine.

CaptainMattJ. · 04-13-12, 11:07 PM

04-14-12, 03:27 AM

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Three generations suffer for one persons political crime. Imagine.

Its the glorious Democratic Peoples Republic, the only thing surprising in the article is that there was cattle at the camp and the cattle had been fed corn.

Diopos · 04-14-12, 04:56 AM

These are the fruits of division. But bare in mind that this is not a communist state "exclusive". In Greece and after the post WW2 civil war, people suffered prosecution and exclusion almost for 30 years. Check also the recent history of Portugal and Spain. Of course in these cases the bad guys (or their parents) were of a left political orientation.

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August · 04-14-12, 08:24 AM

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Originally Posted by Diopos

These are the fruits of division. But bare in mind that this is not a communist state "exclusive". In Greece and after the post WW2 civil war, people suffered prosecution and exclusion almost for 30 years. Check also the recent history of Portugal and Spain. Of course in these cases the bad guys (or their parents) were of a left political orientation.

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You're right. This is all about the lengths that the Kim dynasty will go in order to maintain power.

Jimbuna · 04-14-12, 09:00 AM

Scratch NK off my list of vacation destinations...not that it was ever on it.

Hottentot · 04-14-12, 09:22 AM

I could swear I have read that exact article a long time ago already, but Fox dates is as a recent one. I even remember originally finding the link to the article from Subsim.

I'm from the future and even I didn't know it back then.

August · 04-14-12, 11:08 AM

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Originally Posted by Hottentot

I could swear I have read that exact article a long time ago already, but Fox dates is as a recent one. I even remember originally finding the link to the article from Subsim.

I'm from the future and even I didn't know it back then.

Maybe it was one of the other two known escapees mentioned in the article.

Maybe the cracks in the wall are starting to widen?

Hottentot · 04-14-12, 11:19 AM

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Originally Posted by August

Maybe it was one of the other two known escapees mentioned in the article.

Possibly. I'm sure this is not the first time I've heard of this, but what struck me as odd was how even the wording choices in the article felt very familiar. I tried searching older threads with the word "concentration", but didn't come up with anything relevant. Just threads relating to the Nazis and, weirdly enough, lots of threads concerning Obama.

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Maybe the cracks in the wall are starting to widen?

That's something we can all hope for.

_dgn_ · 04-14-12, 01:08 PM

Concentration camp ? Now ?

Odd ! I thought that they all had been released in 1945 when Fascism had been overcome by the democracies ...

kranz · 04-14-12, 01:48 PM

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Originally Posted by _dgn_

Concentration camp ? Now ?

Odd ! I thought that they all had been released in 1945 when Fascism had been overcome by the democracies ...

you are probably talking about the 'democracies' which throughout the war supported the world's biggest system of labor camps

(not to mention the genocide of the Polish officers...but hey, there were more important issues than a few "Polacks"

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ok, coming back to NK....

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Diopos Ace of the Deep Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Athens, the original one. Posts: 1,226 Downloads: 9 Uploads: 0	These are the fruits of division. But bare in mind that this is not a communist state "exclusive". In Greece and after the post WW2 civil war, people suffered prosecution and exclusion almost for 30 years. Check also the recent history of Portugal and Spain. Of course in these cases the bad guys (or their parents) were of a left political orientation. . __________________ - Oh God! They're all over the place! CRASH DIVE!!! - Ehm... we can't honey. We're in the car right now. - What?... er right... Doesn't matter! We'll give it a try anyway!

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Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,742 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	Scratch NK off my list of vacation destinations...not that it was ever on it. __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

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Hottentot Sea Lord Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: My private socialist utopia of Finland Posts: 1,918 Downloads: 4 Uploads: 0	I could swear I have read that exact article a long time ago already, but Fox dates is as a recent one. I even remember originally finding the link to the article from Subsim. I'm from the future and even I didn't know it back then. __________________ Хотели как лучше, а получилось как всегда.

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_dgn_ Machinist's Mate Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: France Posts: 122 Downloads: 331 Uploads: 0	Concentration camp ? Now ? Odd ! I thought that they all had been released in 1945 when Fascism had been overcome by the democracies ...