Escape from Camp 14: One Man’s Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West

　　作者以記者熟練、精湛的手法，作出了前所未有的內幕報導，讓我們看到北韓意圖隱藏的勞改營真相。朝鮮中央通訊社曾對外表示自己的國家沒有「人權問題」，申的逃脫行為，卻弔詭地映證了北韓極權生活的真實存在。透過脫北者申東赫的經歷，我們看見人之所以為人的堅忍和盼望，也重新省視這個充斥著核武威脅與嚴重人權問題的國度。

　　The heartwrenching New York Times bestseller about the only known person born inside a North Korean prison camp to have escaped
 
　　North Korea’s political prison camps have existed twice as long as Stalin’s Soviet gulags and twelve times as long as the Nazi concentration camps. No one born and raised in these camps is known to have escaped. No one, that is, except Shin Dong-hyuk.
 
　　In Escape From Camp 14, Blaine Harden unlocks the secrets of the world’s most repressive totalitarian state through the story of Shin’s 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.
 
　　The late “Dear Leader” Kim Jong Il was recognized throughout the world, but his country remains sealed as his third son and chosen heir, Kim Jong Eun, consolidates power. Few foreigners are allowed in, and few North Koreans are able to leave. North Korea is hungry, bankrupt, and armed with nuclear weapons. It is also a human rights catastrophe. Between 150,000 and 200,000 people work as slaves in its political prison camps. These camps are clearly visible in satellite photographs, yet North Korea’s government denies they exist.
 
　　Harden’s harrowing narrative exposes this hidden dystopia, focusing on an extraordinary young man who came of age inside the highest security prison in the highest security state. Escape from Camp 14 offers an unequalled inside account of one of the world’s darkest nations. It is a tale of endurance and courage, survival and hope.

　　★本書中譯版《逃出14號勞改營：從人間煉獄到自由世界的脫北者傳奇》由智園出版。

作者簡介

布雷恩．哈登 Blaine Harden

　　美國公共電視網（PBS）節目「前線」記者，《經濟學人》雜誌撰稿人。曾為《華盛頓郵報》東亞、東歐和非洲辦事處處長，著有《非洲：來自一個脆弱大陸的報導》，及《一條迷失的河流：哥倫比亞河的生與死》。

　　Blaine Harden is a reporter for PBS's FRONTLINE and a contributor to the Economist, and has served as The Washington Post's bureau chief in East Asia, Eastern Europe, and Africa. He is the author of Africa: Dispatches from a Fragile Continent and A River Lost: The Life and Death of the Columbia. He lives in Seattle, Washington.

申東赫 Shih Dong-Hyuk

　　原名申仁根，一九八二年生於北韓的十四號勞改營，二○○五年逃至中國，次年抵達南韓。他在二○○九年遷居美國，目前居住於首爾。