BORN AND RAISED IN A CONCENTRATION CAMP

Google Tech Talks
May, 12 2008

ABSTRACT

Google will be hosting Dong Hyuk Shin, a 26-year-old North Korean defector born and raised in a concentration camp. Shin was born on Nov. 19, 1982 and called the camp home until 2005. While at the camp, he endured daily beatings, torture, starvation-level rations, saw forced abortions and even witnessed the public execution of his mother and brother in 1996. Shin described his life of total isolation from the world: "In South Korea, although there is disappointment and sadness, there is also so much joy, happiness and comfort. In Kaechon, I did not even know such emotions existed. The only emotion I ever knew was fear: fear of beatings, fear of starvation, fear of torture and fear of death." LiNK's Executive Director Adrian Hong will brief the audience on the broader issue of human rights in North Korea, as well as the current refugee situation and what can be done to help. Liberty in North Korea, or LiNK, is an international non-governmental organization devoted to human rights in North Korea and the protection of North Korean refugees.

This talk will be taped.

Speaker: Adrian Hong
Adrian Hong: Adrian Hong currently serves as Executive Director of Liberty in North Korea, or LiNK, an international NGO devoted to human rights in North Korea, and the protection of North Korean refugees all over the world. In December of 2006, Mr. Hong was arrested along with 2 LiNK field workers and 6 North Korean refugees in the People's Republic of China and imprisoned before being released and deported

Speaker: Dong-hyuk SHIN
Dong-hyuk SHIN: Mr. Shin was born and raised in Political Prison Camp No. 14 until his escape in 2005. Based in South Korea, he has testified before Britain's House of Lords, and published a book in 2007 entitled "I Was a Political Prisoner at Birth in North Korea" published by the DataBase Center for North Korean Human Rights. Mr. Shin aspires to attend college and hopes to become a policeman.

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[gray wheeler]

watching this video, made me realize i feel so lucky to have all the freedoms in my country!this is terrifying!

[La-di da]

You've never made a typo ever in your life ever? Please, teach me how to be perfect like you.

[ung427]

That is soo f*#ked! When North Korea gets liberated, all of the guards who worked in prison camps should be executed. Not for revenge, they shouldn't be tortured because torture is disgusting, but they should be ended because we don't need beings like that on this earth. I'm thinking of missions of sneaking in and taking out every guard in a prison camp. Missions like that shouldn't be performed by any one country but by a group of concerned people. North Korea is a hell on earth.

[Ultima22]

You're retarded. It's not cowardly to try and fix your own country before devoting needed resources to a cause that will likely end in war.

[friendlycakeasaurus]

anyway you should be happy because you are going to likely get what you want, which is the north korean people will continue to suffer. the world has allowed it to go on for this long and there really isn't any indication that this policy of being cowards will change any time soon.