Political Prisoners in North Korea

北朝鮮では、20万人以上の政治犯が収容所に投獄されていると言われている。

収容所に生まれ、初めて国外に脱出した朝鮮人の若者の記録がまもなく出版される。著者は、ワシントンポストの東京支局長を務めたことのある、ハーデン氏である。ご参考まで。

Twenty-six years ago, Shin Dong-hyuk was born inside Camp 14, one of five sprawling political prisons in the mountains of North Korea. Located about 55 miles north of Pyongyang, the labor camp is a 'complete control district,' a no-exit prison where the only sentence is life. Inmates work 12 to 15-hour days in the camp mining coal, building dams, sewing military uniforms until they are executed, killed in work-related accidents or die of illness that is usually triggered by hunger. No one born in Camp 14 or in any North Korean political prison camp has escaped. No one except Shin. This is his story. A gripping, terrifying memoir with a searing sense of place, ESCAPE FROM CAMP 14 will unlock, through Shin, a dark and secret nation, taking readers to a place they have never before been allowed to go.

著者について

Blaine Harden is a reporter for PBS Frontline and a contributor to the Economist, based in Seattle, having completed a tour as the Washington Post's bureau chief in Tokyo. He is the prize-winning, acclaimed author of two books: Africa: Dispatches from a Fragile Continent (Norton, 1990) and A River Lost: The Life and Death of the Columbia (Norton, 1996).

http://www.blaineharden.com/2011/12/20/my-piece-in-foreign-policy-on-the-cruelty-of-kim-jong-il-and-his-heirs-chance-to-stop-it/