Going in, you know this will be a story of an insane living situation. The life of Shin Dong-hyuk is so terrible it's beyond my understanding. I can read it but not really grasp the pain. Shin grew up this way and not in any type of freedom in my life, so he has great difficulty adjusting to life outside the camp. He almost not capable of understanding life outside his camp. The camps constantly work them until they gave out and the camps have lasted 50+ years. Those in charge have completely programmed everyone to think of their with no understanding of life outside it. They do not even comprehend there is a different world out there. Shin's recent interview with 60 Minutes, he said he thought all the world was just these camps, that's it. I can't imagine thinking that is all there is to life and the world. 
 One moment that is particularly terrifying. Shin is with a group working to build a dam. Of course North Korean is dirt poor and has no tools. All the work is being done by hand. Despite the back breaking labor that much work must be, it is very dangerous because it is not being built to engineering standards. Shin saw one group of 19 prisoners crushed by a falling wall they were building. The prisoners were forced to proceed building as if nothing happened. Insanity. 
 These camps need to be shut down. Donate to human rights groups working on this.