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• Support me on Patreon! In November of 2014, the North Korean government published a video discrediting a prominent North Korean defector named Shin Dong-hyuk. Shin Dong-hyuk was an outspoken critic of North Korea's human rights record, drawing worldwide attention to the harsh realities of the North Korean regime with his 2012 book, “Escape from Camp 14“, and testifying before a United Nations Commission of Inquiry about his ordeal. In this 18-minute video, Shin's father had publicly denounced his son, claiming that his son never lived in a political prison camp and that his testimony was false. The presence of his father alone had prompted Shin to come out two months later, responding to the video. Though, it came as a shock to many of his supporters that he had admitted to changing plenty of crucial details of his story — thus rendering his original account unreliable. Other North Korean refugees then followed suit in taking him to
