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Welcome back. as north korea tries to terrify the world, it's 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. that's where we pick up his story. >> translator: when i went to the public execution site, i thought th...

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 required to watch. as frightening as the executions were, shin considered them a break from the monoto...

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. that's 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. that's where i saw my mother and my brother being dragged out. and that's when i knew that it wasn't me. >> how did they kill y...

What love was when you were, for the first 23 years of your life? >> translator: i still don't 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 shot. even if you did not report someone who was trying to escape, you would be shot. >> the shootin...

The public execution site, i thought that i might be killed. i was brought to the very front. that's where i saw my mother and my brother being dragged out. and that's when i knew that it wasn't 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 believed the rules of the camp. >> this man is a veteran foreign correspondent who first reported shin'...