Human rights activist Shin Dong-hyuk

North Korea is going all out to discredit human rights abuse charges following a well-known defector's recent confession of errors in his accounts about life in the communist country.
Last week, Shin Dong-hyuk, one of the most frequently cited survivors of brutal North Korean prison camps, admitted to some errors in the timeline and the location of his accounts of experience and defection from North Korea's political prison camp.