00:00He was born inside a prison, not as a punishment, as a policy.
00:04Shin Dong-hyuk entered the world in Camp 14, one of North Korea's total control zones,
00:09a place where prisoners are not just held, but bred.
00:12He is believed to be the only person born inside one of these camps who ever escaped.
00:17He spent his first 23 years there. He never knew there was anything else.
00:22Children in Camp 14 were taught one rule above everything else.
00:25Report anyone who breaks the rules. Your friends. Your neighbors. Your parents.
00:31Shin did exactly that. He told guards about his mother and brother's escape plan.
00:36He watched them executed for it. He felt no guilt. He had never been taught what guilt was.
00:42When he finally escaped in 2005, crossing into China through a gap left by a dying man's body,
00:48he didn't feel free. He didn't know what freedom meant.
00:51The most disturbing part of Shin's story isn't what they did to him.
00:55It's what they made him become before he even had a choice.
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