Daily Mail News
By MIRIAM KUEPPER
PUBLISHED: 07:47 EST, 31 January 2024 | UPDATED: 11:55 EST, 31 January 2024
Horrific details of Kim Jong-un’s gulags have emerged in a documentary showing defectors desperately trying to flee from North Korea.
In the gripping documentary Beyond Utopia: Escape from North Korea, harrowing footage reveals the lengths desperate people will go to to leave Kim Jong-un’s regime full of famines, a developing economic crisis and crippling international sanctions.
One defector said he didn’t make it out and was detained in North Korea during his escape attempt, where he was tortured for nine months and was starved to the point he only weighed 35kg (77lbs).
When he finally confessed to being a foreign spy – he wasn’t but hoped if he confessed the torture would end – he was brought to a camp, where he had to march up a hill every day to chop down trees.