Sunday, July 17, 2011

Rhee (a pseudonym to protect her and her family) is a freshly arrived North Korean defector who only three months ago was struggling to survive in a labour camp.

This was her first time in a shopping mall and she was somewhat overwhelmed.

He did take them in and feed them, but at a price. His wooden house was divided into two. The man lived with his family on one side, and on the other North Korean girls sat at computers in front of webcams, performing for sex chatlines.

"We have food but no money, and we could 't go outside. It was like a prison. There were four of us are there for almost a year. At one point escaped, one of the girls, but they came later on his own a month. She knew that no one know there, and didn 't the language of \. "

After 11 months in prison, Sang-mi and one of the other girls ran away when one of her kidnappers 's friends in office, left. She persuaded him that they were allowed to take a break.

Shortly after she disappeared, the police knocked on the door. Whether you know a relationship between the two events, not Rhee not, or they are reluctant to speculate. She and the other remaining girls were abducted to North Korea and imprisoned in a labor camp outside the city Hoeryong. According to its description, it can North Korea 's infamous Camp 22 have the largest concentration camps in the country.

"We were in huge wooden huts in the mountains. There were about 1,000 women in our cabin and we were so squashed we had to sleep with our legs lock," she said. "Mostly it was people like me who tried to flee and were common criminals. We had to eat rice bowls and had to work cutting down trees and pull the wood back with chains."

"If it was really cold in the winter, five or six women are dying every day and the other prisoners would have to carry the corpses. I still dream of \."



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