[RexBeach]

God bless him!

[Skooz]

BFL

[dfwgator]

And Enviro-Whackos, like Algore’s useful idiots think North Korea is paradise.

[GOPJ]

North Korea - the hellhole of the Universe.

ping

[Baynative]

People need to understand a little more about what goes on when government controls every aspect of life. This needs to be shared.

[PGR88]

A little bit of socialism is a little bit of evil, and a lot of socialism is a lot of evil.

[StormEye]

This guy's story's is completely unimportant.
Conceived and born in a prison camp to be slave of the state --
Nah that doesn't count.

Only the "Trayvon" Martin case matters!
That's real "discrimination".
And don't forget the important things Kim Kardashian is doing too. And then there's that fount of wisdom and knowledge on MSNBC -- Al Sharpton. Now he's really got some pithy stories to relate to America.

[Don Corleone]

Escape from Camp 14

Who bought the Movie Rights?

[bunster]

Brian lamb interviewed the author yesterday on Book TV. Absolutely fascinating. I don’t think I’m giving anything away here but .... a man who had been born inside a N. Korean concentration camp with no hope of EVER leaving and not knowing there was even a world outside until he met another inmate who told him about Seoul, America, Europe, etc. But having no reference to what that meant was moved to escape by the descriptions of Food: Chicken, pork, beef could be had easily in China instead of the cabbage soup with corn and occasional field mouse or rat he had always had. That is what moved him to risk his life.

There is more — much more.

[mkjessup]

This brave young man’s experience seems to mirror that of Kang Chol-Hwan, author of ‘The Aquariums of Pyongyang’. After former President George W. Bush read his book, he invited Kang Chol-Hwan to visit with him in the White House, where they spent over half an hour (a substantial time considering how busy the President is) discussing the plight of the North Korean people and what could be done to help them.

After their meeting in June 2005, and after the on-again, off-again ‘Six Party Talks’ (which GWB was convinced would lead to an agreement with North Korea to end their nuclear program), Bush finally figured out in late 2008 that the best way he could help the North Korean people was to sell them up the river, by taking North Korea OFF the list of terrorist supporting nations maintained by the State Department, which was no doubt appreciated by the late Dear Leader Kim Jong Il.

What did the North Korean people get for such a grandiose act of appeasement?

The same thing the rest of the world received from Pyongyang, i.e., ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.

[Olog-hai]

There’s an error in the 11^th paragraph of the article; if Park was “electrocuted”, he would be dead (“electrocute” being a portmanteau of “electro-” and “execute”). Right thing to say is that Park was shocked by the electric fence when escaping.

JMHO, but the worst Korean War blunder was firing MacArthur; we were already fighting the Chinese, and there is a disturbing parallel to how we were fighting the Iranians in Iraq and the liberal media tried to cover that up. The Kim dynasty should have been crushed in 1951 at the very latest, and the fact that this was one of the first miserable military failures of the UN should have been a warning for the future. (Never mind defining MacArthur going against the POTUS as a Constitutional violation; there’s a reason why The Art Of War says “If fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight even if the ruler forbid it”.)

[Noumenon]

Camp 14 - it’s the 0bamunist dream. They’re so close they can almost taste it.

[353FMG]

“....to raise awareness about North Korean prisoners.”

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He will be talking to a brick wall.

[Joe Boucher]

Sooo if the former govenor of New Mexico Richardson gets indicted for a long list of illegalities he can always rely on his buds in Nork land to give him asylum.

[itsahoot]

And they keep telling us you can’t build a fence. Who knew?

[patriot08]

You can read a few chapters in the book dept on amazon for free. It’s interesting.

[lyby]

There is another book, written by a young man who escaped from the atrocities of Sudan in the late 1990s. I believe his name is Francis Bok, and the title of his book is Escape from Slavery.

[HollyB]

Reminds me of a book I read of a woman who escaped NK, after her release from prison. The story is gut wrenching.

http://www.amazon.com/Eyes-Tailless-Animals-Prison-Memoirs/dp/0882643355