Born in the Gulag: Why a North Korean Boy Sent His Own Mother to Her Death By Blaine Harden Mar 28 2012, 7:01 AM ET84 Life inside North Korea's Camp 14 so twisted 13-year-old Shin In Geun that he betrayed his mother and only brother. Nine years after watching his mother's hanging, Shin In Geun squirmed through the electric fence that surrounds Camp 14 and ran off through the snow into the North Korean wilderness. It was January 2, 2005. Before then, no one born in a North Korean political prison camp had ever escaped. As far as can be...