The road to the South Korean launch of Shin Dong-Hyuk’s memoir of his life inside a North Korean concentration camp has been a long one. His account is the harrowing story of a boy born in the notorious “Camp 14” to parents who showed little affection towards him, such was their own daily struggle for survival. He endured 22 years of hard physical labour, imprisonment, torture and meager rations before learning of the possibility of a life outside. His escape took place by crawling over the dead body of his accomplice who was electrocuted on the fence through which they