Kang Chol Hwan, a North Korean defector and writer whose grandfather was arrested in Pyongyang for "political crimes" in 1977, when Kang was nine. Despite his age, Kang was imprisoned with the rest of his grandfather's household in the Yodok labor camp for ten years. "Everybody in North Korea lives in fear of being arrested and sent to a labor camp," Kang says. "Russia and China have both changed, and North Korea is captured between them. The only way the leaders maintain power is through fear."
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