Meet Shin Dong-hyuk, who survived 24 years in one of North Korea’s “total control zone” death camps — and is the only known escapee:
He said: “There was a room, a chamber type. It’s like a cell within the prison camp where these tortures take place.
“When I first entered it. I immediately felt that the atmosphere itself was terrifying.
“When I was brought in, without saying a word the proceeded to tie my ankles and wrists together and hung me from above.”
Showing shocking burn marks on his back, he spoke of how he was placed over a charcoal fire until he ‘smelled his skin burning’.
He said: “As the fire started rising up toward my back, I could feel that it was scorching hot and I could even smell my own flesh burning.
“I begged for my life to be spared but it was completely useless. It was just so hot and I kept squirming.”
Shin was born in a North Korean prison in 1982 and made a daring escape in 2005.
His crime was being born in a concentration camp.
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