How one man escaped from a North Korean prison camp. ⇒
20 March 2012, mid-morning
Shin looked at his father. He was weeping silently. When guards dragged her to the gallows, Shin saw that his mother looked bloated. They forced her to stand on a wooden box, gagged her, tied her arms behind her back and a noose around her neck. She scanned the crowd and found Shin. He refused to hold her gaze. When guards pulled away the box, she jerked about desperately. As he watched his mother struggle, Shin thought she deserved to die.
This is easily one of the bleakest things I have ever read (in my entire life). I have no idea how anyone could get through the entire book this article is excerpted from.
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