Seoul (CNN) -- Watching the public execution of his mother and older brother, Shin Dong-Hyuk thought the punishment was just. They had planned to escape the North Korean labor camp they were being held in until Shin overheard them and reported them to the prison guards. Just 14-years old, Shin says he felt no guilt in condemning them to death. One of the very few North Koreans to be born inside one of the brutal prison camps, he says the concept of family that exists in the outside world did not exist in Camp 14. 'Escape from Camp 14' a true North Korea survival story
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S. Korea's National Human Rights Commission documenting abuses in N. Korean labor camps
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The report is based on the testimony of 278 defectors, who described torture, starvation, deaths
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Pyongyang refuses to acknowledge their existence, despite Amnesty reports of 200,000 inmates
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The camps have been used by the Kim dynasty for years to crush political dissent
South Korea's government is trying to officially document the atrocities for the first time, collecting disturbing firsthand accounts from those who have managed to make it to @placeholder, including Shin who got out in 2004.