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Welcome back. as north korea tries to terrify the world, its already terrorizing generations of its own people, locking parents, children, grandparents away in concentration camps. some lived their entire lives in these gulags, they are actually born into them, including a man who says he was born and raised in the notorious hell hole known as camp 14. he escaped to tell his story. before the break, you heard shin talk about seeing his brother and mother taken to the public execution site. thats...

In this building, a school of sorts, shin says he watched his teacher beat a little girl to death for hoarding a few kernels of corn, a violation of prison rules which he and the other students were required to learn by heart. >> translator: if you escaped, you would be shot. if you tried to escape or planned to escape, you would be shot. even if you did not report someone who was trying to escape, you would be shot. >> the shootings took place in this field, he says. the other prisoners were re...

Some lived their entire lives in these gulags, they are actually born into them, including a man who says he was born and raised in the notorious hell hole known as camp 14. he escaped to tell his story. before the break, you heard shin talk about seeing his brother and mother taken to the public execution site. thats where we pick up his story. >> translator: when i went to the public execution site, i thought that i might be killed. i was brought to the very front. thats where i saw my mother ...

What love was when you were, for the first 23 years of your life? >> translator: i still dont know what that means. >> love may have been absent, but fear was not. in this building, a school of sorts, shin says he watched his teacher beat a little girl to death for hoarding a few kernels of corn, a violation of prison rules which he and the other students were required to learn by heart. >> translator: if you escaped, you would be shot. if you tried to escape or planned to escape, you would be s...

The public execution site, i thought that i might be killed. i was brought to the very front. thats where i saw my mother and my brother being dragged out. and thats when i knew that it wasnt me. >> how did they kill your mother? >> translator: they hung her. and they shot my brother. >> he speaks of it still without visible emotion and admits he felt no sadness watching his mother and brother die. he thought they got what they deserved. they had, after all, broken the prison rules. >> he believ...

>> he speaks of it still without visible emotion and admits he felt no sadness watching his mother and brother die. he thought they got what they deserved. they had, after all, broken the prison rules. >> he believed the rules of the camp. >> this man is a veteran foreign correspondent who first reported shins story in the "washington post" and later wrote a book about his life. >> he had no compass by which to judge his behavior. >> he had a compass but the compass were the rules of the camp. t...

Needs had led to a dilemma for mary beth wolfenbarger. >> [ bleep ]. they done wrote me up. >> what? >> what for? >> for a sexual toy. >> what kind of sexual toy? >> look, it says that they found a glove, an ace bandage, and two trash bags and a tampon. theyre trying to say i had -- theyre trying to say i had a dilledo. >> sexual activity of any sort is against prison rules. and even though wolfenbarger is allowed to have the individual items she was caught with, she was written up for how they ...

Inmates who violate prison rules. >> i was taking him to north segregation to lock him up in our seg unit. >> when the inmate turns on him, morgan tightens his grip. but the situation would soon get much more intense. >> thats when he tried to pull away from me and turned around on me. >> hes grabbing on me. >> thats when i tried to secure him to the ground until i could get more security help. >> no, no, no. >> no, no, no. new huh-uh. im going to walk. im going to walk. >> those particular char...

Fishing. >> go ahead. take off. >> though fishing is against prison rules, inmate, tracy washington, was willing to demonstrate how to make a fishing line. >> you get the string made out of the waistband of our boxer. we take the string apart and then we put a little piece of plastic as a weight and we slide it across the floor like this. they might come in here and take my line now that they know ive got it. but ill make another one. >> shoot it out. >> but our producer was about to find out th...

>> the rules are merciless. and ignoring race politics can lead to catastrophic results. >> id be in violation of prison rules if i were to sit there because that area is for mexicans and whites, and blacks are on the other side. i would set off a race riot if i sat right there. and that wouldnt be too nice. you know? i would probably hear a lot about that back in ad seg. you got to go all the way around. you cant go across. i cant even cut through the middle of this area here. i have to go all ...