Escape from camp 14 read escape from camp 14 is a disturbing account of the life of shin dong hyuk a north korean who was born in a political prison camp and knew nothing about the outside world every day brought hours of constant labor with the hope that he managed to find enough food to survive and avoided beatings by the guards. Escape from camp 14 is a disturbing account of the life of shin dong hyuk a north korean who was born in a political prison camp and knew nothing about the outside world every day brought hours of constant labor with the hope that he managed to find enough food to survive and avoided beatings by the guards. In escape from camp 14 blaine harden unlocks the secrets of the worlds most repressive totalitarian state through the story of shins shocking imprisonment and his astounding getaway shin knew nothing of civilized existence he saw his mother as a competitor for food guards raised him to be a snitch and he witnessed the execution of his mother and brother. In escape from camp 14 blaine harden unlocks the secrets of the worlds most repressive totalitarian state through the story of shins shocking imprisonment and his astounding getaway shin knew nothing of civilized existence he saw his mother as a competitor for food guards raised him to be a snitch and he witnessed the execution of his mother and brother. Escape from camp 14 by blaine harden is about the only man who managed to escape from north koreas high security concentration camp camp 14 and lived to tell his storyshin dong hyuk was born in camp 14his mother and father got married inside the camp as a prize for their obedience and hard work shins brother and father lived in other facilities inside the camp and they never lived