Lee Young-Guk
Lee Young-Guk worked as the bodyguard of Kim Jon 2 for more than 10 years. He left North Korea after realizing that Kim Jong Un was a dictator and that people in the country were suffering from famine. In the prison camp, he lost almost half his body weight because he was barely fed. He lost his teeth and is blind in one eye ("Kim's Former Bodyguard"). When he tells his story, he talks about a flower garden-- a garden full of dead bodies in the prison camp. (Handcocks) He also has massive scars on his shin (North & South Korea (Opposing Viewpoints)). |
Kim Hye Sook Kim was sent to the prison camp when she was thirteen years old. She witnessed cannibalism in the prison camps. She comments that she was "living a life that was worse than a dogs, living in a life like a slave. In the camps, workers work 14-20 hour work days and receive only one meal a day. When she escaped, she finally knew why she was imprisoned. It was because her grandfather escaped to South Korea before the Korean War. (North Korean Defector). Is it fair for her to suffer for something she had no control over?
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Kim Hye-Sook Drew these photos to show what happened to her in the camp.
They were walking skeletons of sin and bone, with faces covered in cuts and scars where they had been beaten. Most had no ears; they have been torn off in beatings. Many had lost a leg and hobbled about on Crude crutches or sticks." -Ahb Myong-Choi, guard at various camps (North & South Korea (Opposing Viewpoints) 159).