Shin Dong-hyuk is a North Korean defector living in South Korea. He is currently the only known prisoner to have successfully escaped from a "total-control zone" grade internment camp in North Korea alive. He is believed to also be the only person to have been born in a North Korean prison camp to escape from North Korea. Shin came into the public eye after being the subject of a biography, Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey From North Korea to Freedom in the West, by former Washington Post journalist Blaine Harden. Shin, sometimes accompanied by Harden, has given talks to audiences around the world about his life in Kaechon internment camp and about the totalitarian North Korean regime to raise awareness of the situation in North Korean internment and concentration camps and North Korea. Shin has been described as the world's "single strongest voice" on the atrocities inside North Korean camps by a member of the United Nations' first commission of inquiry into human rights abuses of North Korea. 

November 19th, 1982 in Kaechon internment camp (Age 41)