Virgil Griffith is an American programmer known for his work on the Ethereum cryptocurrency platform. In 2019, he was arrested and charged for attending a cryptocurrency conference in North Korea without obtaining U.S. government permission, which violated U.S. sanctions against the country. During the conference, he allegedly provided technical advice on using blockchain technology to evade sanctions. Griffith's actions raised significant legal and ethical questions regarding the intersection of technology, international law, and sanctions policy.

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• Being transferred to a forced labored educational center as a transferer. (How many people? What kind of criminals? What kind of food?)
• How people hide money
• Sitting on the top bunk for three weeks hearing my step mother and her daughters eating while i'm starving on the top bunk
• Transferred to the North Korean defector’s detention center: How my step mother finessed money from a fellow inmate.

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• Getting onto a chinese police truck and going back to North Korea
• First day interrogation, hearing people screaming for the secret police to stop beating them up
• Women at the next cell committing suicide
• My step mother was abused because she told the secret police that I was her son.

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• My step mother’s boss reporting us to the Chinese government and getting arrested for the first time.
• Getting captured for the second time and being deported back to North Korea

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Daily Life In China

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• Chinese side at night
• My half brother helped me escape North Korea for the first time.
• Coming to live at China in 2008

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• Daily life in Sunchon
• Friends
• Life in Haesan
• South Korean dramas

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• How people make money in North Korea
• What my half brother did to make money
• What my sister in law did to make money
• What our neighbors did to make money
• What I did to make money when I was 13
• What “criminals” did to make money

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• What I watched for fun in North Korea
• Music, Videos, Type of punishment that we get watching foreign media.
• What type of punishment you get consuming foreign medias

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• Moving to Sunchon to live with my half brother.
• Consuming contraband foreign media
• What people watch for fun?

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