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...Shin Dong Hyuk, a 27-year-old who is reportedly the only living former prisoner to escape a North Korean prison camp, also wrote a recent book about his experiences, Escape to the Outside World. Shin says he was born and raised in a camp about 55 miles north of Pyongyang and like many prisoners witnessed routine atrocities, including the execution of both his mother and brother. Before his escape in 2005, Shin was tortured at least twice, once for accidentally dropping a sewing machine in the garment factory where he was forced to work at the camp. He also...
...centers for the children of working parents and homes for the elderly, that would relieve some of the financial burdens on working-class families and encourage them to spend rather than save. "What tended to be taken care of in the household could become more marketized," says Lim Won Hyuk, an economist at the Korea Development Institute in Seoul. "There is a lot of room for job creation...
...forge the suspect photographs. Kim also says Hwang paid him a total of $30,000 (that Kim has returned to the university), which Hwang says was simply to cover Kim's living expenses in Pittsburgh. Korean press reports suggest that total payments to Kim and a colleague, Park Jong Hyuk, may amount to more than $50,000. These allegations are being investigated by Korean prosecutors...
...Indeed, censorship remains pervasive. After the school's musicians put on a stirring performance, belting out rousing odes to school and country backed by electric guitars, Rhee Jin Hyuk, a spiky haired drummer, mentions that he owns an MP3 player. But he claims not to have heard of rap music, or even the Beatles. The only tunes he plays are North Korea's version of pop, a chirpy, heavily synthesized sort of muzak that sounds like it was composed in the 1950s. "I want to be a musician in a military propaganda unit," he tells us. Choe, our minder, says...
...stance has been harder to maintain as more information about the camps has been made public. An Hyuk, a former prisoner in the North who co-founded NKGulag, a Seoul-based human-rights organization, told TIME that the government "needs to find a way to deal with this issue or else it will lose a lot of credibility." Won Hee Ryong, an opposition legislator, says South Korea is "giving up our own values just to win the heart of North Korea." International interest in the camps is growing, as volumes of credible testimony about the prisons in the North pile...