Born a Political Prisoner in North Korea

Saturday, 19 April 2008 18:19 Last Updated on Wednesday, 18 March 2009 14:32

Below is a story about a North Korean man born inside a North Korean political prison camp in 1982. He escaped North Korea in 2005 by crossing the Chinese border. He finally made it to South Korea, and he shares his life's story. It gives us a glimpse of the lives of North Korean political prisoners. It is the most heart-breaking story I've ever read. What's worse and what continues to break my heart is that this isn't something that happened 60 years ago like the holocaust, but rather something that has been happening many times each day in North Korea since 60 years ago. These things are happening right now, even today, in this very moment. I highly recommend you to read this story, and think about how lucky we are, and how silly and spoiled we may be in our daily attitude towards life. And maybe how we may be able to solve this global issue.

Here is the full article. (I Was a Political Prisoner at Birth in North Korea)

He is two years older than me. He was born 50 miles north of where I was born. Yet, we have lived completely different kind of lives. After I read this story, I looked more into the lives of North Koreans, and found these very recent footages smuggled out from North Korea

Click here to view the video.

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By Martino87r , May 25, 2008
Im born in poland, really it's not the same pain that has lived this man, but i have my own story to tell... Maybe its not so drammatical but i have to tell a story of an European citizen and really its not unbelievable that can occour in 2005... I have read the story of this man, and translated it into Italian and now Polish, i'll try to send it by E-Mail to much contacts i have, because i think people must know
Martin
Videos are available again.
By Seong Yup Yoo , May 24, 2008
You can watch the videos again. They were taken down by youtube a while ago, but I search youtube for the same videos and someone put the videos up again, so here they are. These may get removed again. I do have a 300MB version on my computer, so if these keep going down, I'll just host the video on my site. It'll be even better in terms of quality. Martino87r, what country are you from? you've lived through something like what he did?
Why the videos are not avaiable???
By Martino87r , May 23, 2008
Maybe youtube has removed the videos... Im really curious about your history, because my own history is not really different, im try to write a book but is like a "Mission Impossible" because i really have no time to do that... But maybe if you can restore the videos on other website or any other source i'll be happy! Martin

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