American Conservative University Podcast

Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West  This is an encore presentation from our ACU archives. This excerpt serves as an introduction to this fine book. Purchase the book from Amazon or your favorite bookseller. “If you have a soul, you will be changed forever by Blaine Harden’s Escape from Camp 14." —Mitchell Zuckoff, New York Times bestselling author of Lost in Shangri-La The heartwrenching New York Times bestseller about the only known person born inside a North Korean prison camp to have escaped North Korea’s political prison camps have existed twice as long as Stalin’s Soviet gulags and twelve times as long as the Nazi concentration camps. No one born and raised in these camps is known to have escaped. No one, that is, except Shin Dong-hyuk. In Escape From Camp 14, Blaine Harden unlocks the secrets of the world’s most repressive totalitarian state through the story of Shin’s shocking imprisonment and his astounding getaway. Shin knew nothing of civi