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Inside Kim Jong-un's camps of death: Former North Korean female guard reveals the horrors she saw in secret prisons where thousands face being starved, beaten, raped and butchered
Prison guard Lim Hye-jin has revealed what she saw at a North Korean camp
She was left so traumatised after what she witnessed she could not eat for days
Lim, who 20 at the time, saw two brothers 'get beheaded in front of everyone'
By Ian Birrell In Seoul For The Mail On Sunday
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Lim is the first female guard to talk openly about her experiences.
'We were manipulated not to feel any sympathy for prisoners,' she said. 'We were told they had committed terrible crimes. Now I know they were normal people so I feel very guilty.'
Few have escaped these hidden hellholes, modelled on Stalin's gulags and compared to those run by the Nazis. Even children are incarcerated for life, along with parents and grandparents, under rules that punish three generations for perceived dissidence.
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Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4458844/Thousands-North-Korea-s-prisons-face-butchered.html#ixzz4fkDnhim9
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