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North Korean brutal labor camps exposed

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    Escapee's account of harsh regime

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North Korea remains a secretive and brutal regime tonight national security correspondent Jennifer Griffin introduces us to a man who claims he has seen.

Just how brutal it is.

To understand North Korea you need to understand it's gulag system 200000.

Prisoners interned in concentration death camps.

Only three people are known to have ever escaped shin -- duke is one of them put Qaeda took them tick up.

But first rule was that you cannot escape but he did climbing over the back of another prisoner six years ago.

His friend was electrocuted on the -- allowing him to climb across.

To move more quickly attempt to escape you'll be shocked to that.

And those that -- an attempt to skip over another prisoner infiltrate port -- the consoles will be shot as well.

-- was born in the death camp to dissident parents guards use starvation to control him.

As I was walking on the ground I saw it two pieces of two kernels of corn that was.

In the countdown.

That was on the ground so without giving much thought I.

-- -- two kernels of corn and whatever this reckoning -- it -- clean it up.

What I did so in 98 -- that because also -- He turned in his own mother and brother when he found out they were trying to escape the -- -- you I was fourteen years old when.

My mother and brother were publicly executed.

But I don't know emotion rather quote relieve when the fire was the one that was not the one that was -- that wouldn't state about being executed.

It wasn't until two years after his escape while living in South -- that he began to feel any remorse but so hard for me to understand what I did at that time.

Author Blaine Harden has detailed since life in -- fourteen in a new book he was raised by the guards not by its parent.

To be a kind of farm animal.

He grew up without emotion.

And he was always hungry and everything he did was to.

Positioned himself so he can get more food.

North Koreans don't just punish political dissidents themselves they punish relatives three generations later that's how they control their population through fear.

At the Pentagon Jennifer Griffin Fox News.

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