UPDATE 11/01/07

Because of several comments below in regards to the “Axis of Evil” is all in Bush’s IMAGINATION here is a video:

I was listening to Laura Ingraham on the way into the dojo this morning and she was reading from an article on the Washington Post website. Shin Dong-hyuk says he was tortured as a teenager. He watched as his mother and brother were executed, and until he was 20 years old, North Korean Shin Dong-hyuk had heard of neither Kim Il-sung nor Kim Jong-il.

The story is stunning and disgusting and left keep saying that we’re the bad guys, that George Bush is worse than Kim Jong-il….

N. Korean reveals childhood torture
By Andrew Salmon – SEOUL — He says he was tortured as a teenager. He watched as his mother and brother were executed, and until he was 20 years old, North Korean Shin Dong-hyuk had heard of neither Kim Il-sung nor Kim Jong-il.

In a testimony to stunned journalists yesterday, Mr. Shin, the first North Korean defector to the South who was born in the North’s notorious gulag, revealed a nightmarish world in which inmates and their children suffer lifetime incarceration, are kept ignorant of outside society and undergo forms of torture that are medieval in their barbarism.

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