North Korea defector reveals he was tortured and nearly killed just for being CHRISTIAN in Kim Jong Un’s hellhole country
Choi Kwanghyuk, 55, managed to escape from one of the country's notorious jails, fleeing into China and is now living in Los Angeles, US.
A NORTH Korean defector has revealed he was tortured and almost killed by Kim Jong-un’s cruel henchmen because he is a CHRISTIAN.
Choi Kwanghyuk, 55, managed to escape from one of the country’s notorious jails, fleeing into China and is now living in Los Angeles, US.
He told about how he was forced to hide his religious beliefs while living in the North Hamgyong province of the totalitarian state.
He along with eight others started an underground church, but because of Kim Jong-un’s repression of Christians, they were forced to keep it a secret.
But in 2008, officials caught and arrested him.
He said: “I was tortured there. I kept denying it.”
He was about to be sent to one of the country’s terrifying labour camps – where prisoners must undergo “re-education” treatment – when he managed to escape across the border.
Choi said: “I decided to escape because I thought that once they sent me to the other camp, they could eventually send me to the concentration camp or kill me.
“I was traveling back and forth between China and North Korea, but they kept searching for me, and I knew it could put my friends in danger too, so I left.”
He later moved to Dallas, Texas, before settling in LA where he has promised to continue spreading the word about North Korean injustices.
North Koreans who have escaped from the regime describe unimaginable horrors, including rape, torture and suicides.
A former prison guard at Kwanliso 16, the largest political prison camp in North Korea, describes detainees being forced to dig their own graves and women being raped by visiting officials and then disappearing.
He said: “After a night of ‘servicing’ the officials, the women had to die because the secret could not get out. This happens at most of the political prison camps.”
Many of the prisoners die of malnutrition and overwork in dangerous conditions.
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