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There were some facts that woke up in me suspicions about the veracity of the stories told by both the ex-prisoner and the ex-guard.
The prisoner escaped from North Korea after having been a prisoner for 3 years.As he said,"his friend helped him to escape".I guess,it's extremely difficult to escape from a completely closed,police-ruled and militarized totalitarian country of total sneaking like North Korea,where all moving through the country requires a special authorisation.As a former prisoner accused of being a spy,he must have been under a special surveillance,which would have made his escape absolutely impossible.All his former friends would have been scared to have any contact with him,not to mention help him to escape.
The story about how his former torturer got in the same prison with him also looked improbable.It's rather a story for a novel.
The story told by the former guard looked not verisimilar enough too.As he said,"his father was a high-ranking official".The offspring of a high-ranking communist official would not have had to work as a guard in a prison camp.In all communist countries,including USSR,the offsprings of communist party,secret services,military etc. officials enjoyed privileges over ordinary citizens and had not to be engaged in "dirty" occupations.
It was a bit ridiculous as well to hear how the chinese "magnanimously" helped the refugees from North Korea.Those chinese are all spies and informants of their ministry of public security and police themselves.They would have informed the mentioned organizations about the korean fugitives immediately.
Mr.Marcus Noland,an American expert in North Korea,as he confessed,has spoken to 1 500 refugees from North Korea.He listened to all what the partecipants of the program said but he didn't notice any incongruities in their stories.It's a pity that american experts have got so little perspicacy.