Shin Dong-hyuk, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Shin Dong-hyuk

North Korean defector

Date of Birth: 19-Nov-1982

Place of Birth: Kaechon internment camp, North Korea

Profession: writer, human rights activist, journalist

Nationality: North Korea, South Korea

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Shin Dong-hyuk (born Shin In Geun, 19 November 1982 or 1980) is a North Korean-born human rights activist.
He is reputed to be the only known prisoner to have successfully escaped from a "total-control zone" grade internment camp in North Korea.
He was the subject of a biography, Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey From North Korea to Freedom in the West, by former Washington Post journalist Blaine Harden.
Shin has given talks to audiences around the world about his life in Camp 14 and about the totalitarian North Korean regime to raise awareness of the situation in North Korean internment and concentration camps and North Korea.
Shin has been described as the world's "single strongest voice" on the atrocities inside North Korean camps by a member of the United Nations' first commission of inquiry into human rights abuses of North Korea.
In January 2015, he recanted aspects of his story, but a majority of experts continued to support his credibility as a victim of North Korean human rights abuses.