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The Ghastly Hellhole of Camp 14

Topeka Wrote: May 11, 2012 11:53 AM

Invade? If we were a real superpower, running the globe with even one iota of "Truth, Justice, and the American Way"... We would tell China to pull the rug out from under NK, and finance their reintegration with SK as reparations for their support for a brutal regime. ... and they would say, "Yes sir, would like a free-enterprise economic zone, and enforcement of contract and property rights with that?" ... ... Of course, if we had had leadership in 1950, there would be no NK... and there might still be a Tibet, and Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos would not be the China's vassal states. Instead, we are lucky they haven't put us all away - tho they've already built the prisons. Weakness today is Strength tomorrow - for the enemy.

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The Ghastly Hellhole of Camp 14

SHIN DONG-HYUK grew up in North Korea's Camp 14, one of the monstrous slave-labor prison complexes in which the world's most tyrannical regime has crushed hundreds of thousands of its citizens, working them to death in conditions of excruciating brutality and degradation. Though the North Korean concentration camps have lasted far longer than their Soviet or Nazi counterparts did, Shin is the first person born and raised in one of them to have successfully escaped abroad. His story is told in journalist Blaine Harden's Escape from Camp 14, a heart-crushing reminder that man's inhumanity to man has no limit.

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