Former Guards/prisoners (witnesses)
- Ahn Myong-chol (1990 – 1994 in Camp 22) was prison guard and driver in the camp. In 1987 he was prison guard in Kwan-li-so No. 11 (Kyongsong) and 1987 – 1990 in Kwan-li-so No. 13 (Changpyong).
- Kwon Hyok (1987 – 1990 in Camp 22) was security officer in the camp. He defected six years later, when he worked as a military attaché in Beijing.
- No former prisoner from the camp is known to have escaped from North Korea.
Read more about this topic: Camp 22
Famous quotes containing the words guards and/or prisoners:
“When a strong man, fully armed, guards his castle, his property is safe. But when one stronger than he attacks him and overpowers him, he takes away his armor in which he trusted and divides his plunder.”
—Bible: New Testament, Luke 11:21.22.
“It is not only the prisoners who grow coarse and hardened from corporeal punishment, but those as well who perpetrate the act or are present to witness it.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)