A female guard at a North Korean camp has spoken about terrible incidents she saw, including routine killings, torture and rape of prisoners declared enemies of the state.
Lim Hye-jin still shivers at the memory of two brothers who managed to escape briefly from her massive concentration camp in the mountains of North Korea (pictured top right, a rare photograph of prisoners inside a camp).
The scene left Lim, then 20, so traumatised she could not eat for days. Yet it was just one of many terrible incidents she saw during seven years as a camp guard, including routine killings, torture and rape of political prisoners declared enemies of the state.
One woman was stripped naked, then casually set on fire after annoying a guard during interrogation (pictured left, a woman guard at a camp near the Chinese border. Camp 12, (bottom right) a fenced-off farm growing corn and peppers near the Chinese border, was where Lim first began working, aged 17.
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