ssokeel: northororean people basicacay understatand that ifif they express the wrong kinind of thoughts, the whole family can be punished. this could mean they're sent to, you know, an inhospitable part of the rural countryside, or it could mean that they're actually just sent completely to a political prison camp p and completelyly shut off from even n other ordinary north koreans. torture is tragically just a part of a criminal investigation in north korea. and the executions also, you know, the north korean government uses public executions still to this day in order to send a message andnd to spreaead fear. narrator: and because all media and internet are state controlled, ordinary people have no access to the web or foreign press and are led to believe that this is s the normal way to live. but against this backdrop of terror and control, chanyang's family secretly listened to radio broadcasts from the outside world. narrator: somehow he had to get the family out to have a chance of a decent life in south korea. narrator: the punishment for defectors, if they are caught, is definit