The Yodok concentration camp, which is 50 kilometers long, contains among other facilities: an ideological re-education building (brainwashing), quarries, a gold mine in which the mortality rate is very important: second cause death (slave) after chronic undernourishment, also related to the disease and the state of exhaustion.
There are also two places of public executions, with a requirement for all prisoners to attend shootings (of executions platoons), hangings, and under the threat of weapons, the obligation to stone innocent people and hung !
In short, inhumane detention conditions, separated families, sometimes for life, without any reason, upon arbitrary decision of the terrifying "Great Leader" Kim Jong-il (son of Kim Il-sung), and his henchmen. The horrible "family" dictatorship that has lasted over 50 years (well, it makes me think of the Castro brothers in Cuba), reports of the worst nightmares.
Having fled from North Korea in 1992, Kang Chol-Hwan has lived, finally free, South Korea where he has repeatedly denounced the tyrannical regime (informer system "institutionalized", searches day and night , interrogations, torture to death, arbitrary arrests and deportations to concentration camps, summary executions, widespread corruption, undernourishment entire population, propaganda and ideological lies, no right of expression, etc.) prevailing in Korea North and warn the public of the dramatic famine which has developed since the late 1980s, making today around 3 million deaths!
Contrary to what one might think, the Communist totalitarian regime continues to oppress, in the early 21st century HUNDREDS of MILLIONS of innocent people across the world: in North Korea, China, Cuba, Vietnam, etc. !
Confer also valuable testimonies on the theme of totalitarianism, of:
- Rithy Panh (Elimination);
- Dimitri Vitkovski (A life in the Gulag);
- Navy Soth (Prohibited tears);
- Shin Dong-hyuk (camp survivor 14: North Korea's hell freedom);
- Eunsun Kim (North Korea - 9 years to escape hell);
- Vann Nath (In the hell of Tuol Sleng: The Inquisition Khmer Rouge in words and pictures);
- Khun Ken (De dictatorship of the Khmer Rouge to the Vietnamese occupation);
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn (One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich);
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn (The Gulag Archipelago);
- Jacques Rossi (She was beautiful this utopia!);
- Jacques Rossi (manual Gulag);
- S. Eugenia Ginzburg (Vertigo Volume 1 and The sky Kolyma Volume 2);
- Margarete Buber-Neumann (Deported to Siberia Volume 1 and Volume 2 was deported to Ravensbrück);
- Yuri Chirkov (It was so ... A teenager in the Gulag);
- Boris Shiryaev (Pilot Solovki);
- Malay Phcar (Childhood in hell: Cambodia, April 17, 1975 - March 8, 1980);
- Sergei Melgunov (The Red Terror in Russia: 1918-1924);
- Zinaida Gippius (Journal under the Terror);
- Jean Pasqualini (Mao Prisoner);
- Aron Gabor (The cry of the Taiga);
- Varlam Shalamov (Tales of the Kolyma);
- Lev Razgon (Life without tomorrows);
- Pin Yathay (You will live, my son);
- Ante Ciliga (Ten years in the country's disconcerting lie);
- Gustaw Herling (A World Apart);
- David Rousset (The Concentration Camp Universe);
- Joseph Czapski (Memories of Starobelsk);
- Barbara Skarga (An absurd cruelty);
- Claire Ly (Revenue from hell);
- Primo Levi (If This Is a Man);
- Primo Levi (The Drowned and the Saved: forty years after Auschwitz);
- Harry Wu (laogai, the Chinese Gulag);
- Shlomo Venezia (Sonderkommando: In the hell of the gas chambers);
- Anastassia Lyssyvets (happy life ... Tell: Memories of a survivor of the Great Famine in Ukraine);
- François Ponchaud (Cambodia Year Zero);
- Sozerko Malsagov and Nikolai Kiselev-Gromov (The Origins of the Gulag, stories of Solovetsky Islands: The island of hell, followed by: The death camps in the USSR);
- François Bizot (Portal);
- François Bizot (Silence of the executioner);
- Nien Cheng (Life and Death in Shanghai);
- Marine Buissonnière and Sophie Delaunay (I regret being born there: North Korea: Hell and exile);
- Juliette and Dorian Malovic Morillot (North Korean Escapees: Testimonies);
- Barbara Demick (Ordinary Lives in North Korea);
- Vladimir Zazoubrine; (The Chekist story on it and always on it.)
- Etc ..
