{"id":19555,"date":"2013-11-02T11:52:26","date_gmt":"2013-11-02T09:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freedomtravel.se\/?p=19555"},"modified":"2025-11-30T09:47:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T08:47:22","slug":"boktips-flykten-fran-lager-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freedomtravel.se\/en\/2013\/11\/boktips-flykten-fran-lager-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Book tip: Escape from camp 14 by Blaine Harden"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-skribent-helena-bergstrom\">Writer: Helena Bergstr\u00f6m<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">North Korea is a country that many consider to be one big prison in itself. Inside the country are closely guarded prison camps that hold hundreds of thousands of prisoners. And inside these prison camps are underground prisons... <\/p><div class=\"sharethis-buttons\"><div class=\"st-custom-button\" data-network=\"twitter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/platform-cdn.sharethis.com\/img\/twitter.svg\"><span class=\"label\">Tweet<\/span><\/div><div class=\"st-custom-button\" data-network=\"facebook\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/platform-cdn.sharethis.com\/img\/facebook.svg\"><span class=\"label\">Share<\/span><\/div><div class=\"st-custom-button\" data-network=\"linkedin\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/platform-cdn.sharethis.com\/img\/linkedin.svg\"><span class=\"label\">Share<\/span><\/div><div class=\"st-custom-button\" data-network=\"pinterest\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/platform-cdn.sharethis.com\/img\/pinterest.svg\"><span class=\"label\">Pin<\/span><\/div><div class=\"st-custom-button\" data-network=\"reddit\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/platform-cdn.sharethis.com\/img\/reddit.svg\"><span class=\"label\">Share<\/span><\/div><div class=\"st-custom-button\" data-network=\"digg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/platform-cdn.sharethis.com\/img\/digg.svg\"><span class=\"label\">Share<\/span><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">American journalist Blaine Harden has written the incredible story of Shin Dong-hyuk's escape from Camp 14, which ultimately took him all the way to South Korea and the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-att-fodas-i-ett-fanglager\">Being born in a prison camp<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is not only a story about Shin, but also about what grotesque conditions do to people and about the totalitarian state of North Korea. 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