Testimonies
Eyes of Tailless Monkeys
Soon Ok Lee shares her experience of torture - to herself, Christians, even infants - in a concentration camp. [Escape from China]
US House Testimonies
Subcommittee on East Asia and the Pacific of the Committee on International Relations House of Representatives, May 2, 2002. Including testimonies by Lee Young-kook, former Kim Jong Il Bodyguard; Rev. Tim Peters; Dr. Norbert Vollertsen; Kim Sung Min, defector and director of North Korean Defectors’ Volunteer Group; and statements from other refugees.
Citizen’s Alliance Witness Accounts
NKHR: Dozens of testimonies by North Korean refugees and defectors.
Biological Experiments on Political Prisoners
LFNKR: Refugee testimonies of NK biological experiments performed on living political prisoners.
Four Testimonies
HHK: From an activist, a former refugee, a current refugee, and an observer.
Camp No. 14
Testimony by an escapee of Camp No.14 on life in NK and the journey of refugees on their way to SK.
Chinese Border Detention Camps
After going through the hell of the “preliminary interrogation” that seemed to last forever, I was then put in a prison cell where lice and fleas were waiting for me.
My Experience as a North Korean Refugee Repatriated by Force
Every movement of the inmates were closely monitored by Chinese prison guards through a CC TV camera.
Memoirs of a NK Refugee
My life as a refugee began when I had to flee the country amid a row over my proposal that North Korea should embrace the private farming system, one that the Chinese government has successfully adopted.
My Journey to Freedom
Considering that my daughter may be searching for her mom and dad, and wandering about begging for food together with my kinsmen in the dark and frozen land, my throat is choked with tears.
A Love Story
Kang Hye Ok’s account of his prison experience, his time as a refugee in China, and his encounter with the underground movement to reform NK.

