Highlights From Why Do North Korean Defector Testimonies So Often Fall Apart

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Description from YT:
Citations from Wikipedia material and quotes from the article:
Shin Dong-hyuk whose story is in the Blaine Harden bestseller "Escape From Camp 14" was denounced by his father in a DPRK video, who claimed Shin's story was fabricated. Of course nobody is going to buy this. However, Shin himself contacted Blaine Harden to recant some of parts of his account in 2015(3 & 34), about a year after the video was released. Harden would hastily revise his book, leaving out details in order to quickly release the revised book as fully including all details would have taken months (35). The author gives details at to the revision on his website (link will be furnished in description)

Look who is calling bullshit on Shin:
Other defectors (39) are saying that he is lying, one even saying he was not even in Camp 14. Shin contends in a revision, that he did not spend all his time in Camp 14, while other defectors say he was never there. A former member of South Korea's National Intelligence Service said Shin had never lived in a "prison camp (40).

Quotes from the story:
Lee Soon-ok told the US House of Representatives in 2004 about the torture and killings of Christians, being sure to spice up his account to make things look horrendous.
"Chang In-suk, then head of the North Korean Defectors’ Association in Seoul, who claimed to know first hand that Lee had never been a political prisoner (quoted from the article)."

Kwon Hyuk, this little shit helped spawn the passage of "the North Korea Human Rights Act in 2004" when he said that he "witnessed human experiments in political prisons (quoted from the article)".
"South Korea’s Yonhap news agency", who "argued that he never had access to such information (both aforementioned quotes are from the article)."

Slander for hire:
The article cites how monetary payment plays a major role. Originally, the interviewees would be compensated for meal and local transportation costs averaging about $30 back in the late 1990s but as of 2014, interviewees were being paid as much as $200 per hour. Additionally,
"the range of fees could vary wildly, from $50-500 per hour, depending on the quality of information (quoted from article)."

There onto you:
"North Korean refugees have become well aware of what the interviewer wants to hear (quoted from the article)." The author goes on to say - and let me quote: " because in my experience one-on-one interviews tend to generate more exaggerated stories."
Let me let Choi Sung-chol give the damning verdict about the reliability of these slander-for-hire mouth pieces from the DPRK (or perhaps claiming to be from the country) "Most North Koreans do not worry about small factual mistakes as long as the big picture that North Korea violates human rights is right.” (I even quoted the quotation marks)", and finally "We, North Koreans..."...