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NickB79

(19,257 posts) Mon Feb 4, 2013, 05:31 PM Feb 2013

Anyone else watch Camp 14: Total Control Zone?

It's a documentary about life inside the prison camps of North Korea. It's on Netflix.

Let's just say, it's pretty horrible.

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Anyone else watch Camp 14: Total Control Zone? (Original Post) NickB79 Feb 2013 OP

Yes, I have! And the book was even more horrible. I mean the book was good but LiberalLoner Feb 2013 #1

There's a book it's based upon?!?! NickB79 Feb 2013 #3

Is it the story of Shin In-Geun? I just finished reading "Escape From Camp 14" last week. Erose999 Feb 2013 #2

Yup that is the book! LiberalLoner Feb 2013 #4

LiberalLoner

(9,762 posts)

1. Yes, I have! And the book was even more horrible. I mean the book was good but

Reply to NickB79 (Original post)

Mon Feb 4, 2013, 05:35 PM

Feb 2013

it exposed the horrors even more fully. It's just unbelievable. It's so awful. There is a famine in NK going on again now and I have read news stories of fathers being convicted of killing and cooking and eating their own children. Unimaginable. Shudder.

NickB79

(19,257 posts)

3. There's a book it's based upon?!?!

Reply to LiberalLoner (Reply #1)

Mon Feb 4, 2013, 05:47 PM

Feb 2013

Oh god, I didn't know that. Now I'm both tempted to see if the library has it, and also scared to read it.

Erose999

(5,624 posts)

2. Is it the story of Shin In-Geun? I just finished reading "Escape From Camp 14" last week.

Reply to NickB79 (Original post)

Mon Feb 4, 2013, 05:39 PM

Feb 2013

Crazy stuff. I read everything I can get my hands on concerning North Korea. Which isn't much, but still. I don't think AMC could create a more dystopian place.

LiberalLoner

(9,762 posts)

4. Yup that is the book!

Reply to Erose999 (Reply #2)

Mon Feb 4, 2013, 10:05 PM

Feb 2013

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