Talk:Shin Dong-hyuk

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Shin's book

This gentleman wrote a book called Escape to the Outside World: From Total Control Prison Camp No. 14 in North Korea, but I can't find it listed at Amazon, WorldCat, or anywhere. It apparently came out in 2007. There's a Google TechTalk video containing an interview with him where he reads from the book, albeit from a Korean version. Why this book is so difficult to find in the English speaking world is mind boggling. If it was never translated, that would be a true disservice to humanity... Enderandpeter (talk) 17:09, 22 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Fully agree, this book will be a very important document and I also do not understand why we don’t see it being published worldwide. I suspect it is not yet completely translated and published in English. I only saw some English excerpts in a Radio Free Asia report and in a HRNK report so far.

The publisher of the Korean version is the Database Center for North Korean Human Rights and the Korean book cover is shown on the NKDB homepage. Maybe you could ask them on the status of the English publication? In case you found out more, please enhance this article. Gamnamu (talk) 10:56, 24 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Escape from camp 14

The book 'Escape from Camp 14' by Blaine Harden says that Shin went on an extended journey to reach north korea, but did not "crawl there" as this article maintains. He spent a long time under the guise of a homeless NK and caught several trains, before bribing border guards to reach china. Being a wikipedia novice, im not really in any position to edit the article myself, however the article as it stands is incorrect. Please see the book for further details.