North Korean Dictatorship

Is the North Korean dictatorship sustainable for the next century?

The torture started with questions about the conspiracy of Shin Dong-Hyuk's family to escape their political prison camp in North Korea. It continued for weeks; some of the favorite tactics of the guards were to hang the 14-year-old Shin upside down with his ankles cuffed and a fire blowing under his back while he could not even move due to a steel hook inserted near his groin. Shin was dragged from the torture cells after weeks of incomprehensible torture in order to witness the public hanging of his mother and the execution by firing squad of his brother. (Blaine)

The first man to have escaped the political prison camps of North Korea and lived to tell the world about the country's brutalities, Shin has worked towards raising awareness about what is going on in that country. From...
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