the crime of defaming the authority and refrigerator of kim il-sung and kim jong-il. the crime of knowledge about the private life of kim jong-il and releasing information about it to the general public, thus defaming the prestige of the leader. i had no knowledge about these facts when i was sent to prison camp. ... >> i was a close friend having had gone to the same school and college and one day i heard directly from her that she would be going to the special presidents number five. at bat time a new special residence five new they meant qassam -- if kim sung il [speaking korean] >> translator: [speaking korean] >> translator: at the time i was taken to a political prison can i have no idea why i was being incarcerated and there was in the summer of 1989 after i was released that i find out the reason why from the state security agent read the security agent said the following to me colin quote she was not the wife nor did she dare him a son. these were all rumors. if you mention anything about this again you will not be forgiven. >> [speaking korean] [speaking kor

brainwashed into believing kim jong-il and others are capable of superhuman accomplishments and kim il-sung are capable of words to praise, not enough for us to praise can il-sung and kim jong il that there is no words to think otherwise in north korea. [speaking korean] [speaking korean] [speaking korean] [speaking korean] [speaking korean] >> translator: and that the people in north korea -- the situation where their minds have been replaced with the brainwashed mind and there is no freedom to travel to a country where you need special color-coded passes to travel to a particular paste into niche activism site for hansard feet are part of the people so they cannot travel or be free of that society. [speaking korean] [speaking korean] [speaking korean] [speaking korean] [speaking korean] [speaking korean] [speaking korean] [speaking korean] >> translator: two into your question, from my experience as soon as you are born in north korea, you -- the phrases is thank you, great leader. one might say about that to give you is in thousand nine, there is a woman with a young daughter, a young child who accompanied me and the chinese family that was helping us this starving

the crime of defaming the authority and refrigerator of kim il-sung and kim jong-il. the crime of knowledge about the private life of kim jong-il and releasing information about it to the general public, thus defaming the prestige of the leader. i had no knowledge about these facts when i was sent to prison camp. ... >> the following are the political crimes i came to annul -- i came to know. the crime of unwittingly destroying or damaging the portrait. the crime of knowing about the private life of kim jong il, like, for example, the private mistress. the crime of revealing the birth of the firstborn son. the crime of listening to foreign radio or television broadcasts. the crime of questioning or criticizing the policy of the workers' party, or expressing complaints about north korean society. [speaking korean] >> we were close friends. one day i heard directly from her that she would be going to special residence #5. those in the know knew that meant the residence of kim jong il. [speaking korean] qassam -- if kim sung il [speaking korean] >> translator: [speaking

the crime of defaming the authority and refrigerator of kim il-sung and kim jong-il. the crime of knowledge about the private life of kim jong-il and releasing information about it to the general public, thus defaming the prestige of the leader. i had no knowledge about these facts when i was sent to prison camp. ... >> i was a close friend having had gone to the same school and college and one day i heard directly from her that she would be going to the special presidents number five. at bat time a new special residence five new they meant qassam -- if kim sung il [speaking korean] >> translator: [speaking korean] >> translator: at the time i was taken to a political prison can i have no idea why i was being incarcerated and there was in the summer of 1989 after i was released that i find out the reason why from the state security agent read the security agent said the following to me colin quote she was not the wife nor did she dare him a son. these were all rumors. if you mention anything about this again you will not be forgiven. >> [speaking korean] [speaking kor

children are brainwashed into believing that kid jong il and kim il-sung are capable of words to praise, not enough for us to praise can il-sung and kim jong il that there is no words to think otherwise in north korea. [speaking korean] [speaking korean] [speaking korean] [speaking korean] [speaking korean] >> translator: and that the people in north korea -- the situation where their minds have been replaced with the brainwashed mind and there is no freedom to travel to a country where you need special color-coded passes to travel to a particular paste into niche activism site for hansard feet are part of the people so they cannot travel or be free of that society. [speaking korean] [speaking korean] [speaking korean] [speaking korean] [speaking korean] [speaking korean] [speaking korean] [speaking korean] >> translator: two into your question, from my experience as soon as you are born in north korea, you -- the phrases is thank you, great leader. one might say about that to give you is in thousand nine, there is a woman with a young daughter, a young child who accompanied me and the chinese family that was helping us this starving

declaration of human rights, a document ironically that was adopted in 1948, the same year that kim kim il-sung e to power. when nazi death camps were librated, the international commute vowed never again, never again, would we allow these kinds of atrocities to occur. but the political prison camps in north korea have existed longer than the soviet gulag, longer than the chinese prisons and longer than the nazi death camps. your two detector witnesses today are living proof of the horrors of the camp and the length of their experience, one was in prison in the 1970s, and another was in prisoned for 28 years. we have seen millions of north koreans starved to death, despite billions in economic assistance, and north koreans are not the only ones who surveil from kim jong-il's dictator south. south korean p.o.w.s are still being held and at least 108,308 captives are being held in north korea, including 80,000 abductees from south korea, and hubs of others from 13 countries a recently documented by the committee for humidity rights in north korea. former presidents bill clinton and president bush