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Pray for the Christians in prison in North Korea...For North Korean prison camp survivor Hea Woo,torture and deplorable conditions were daily life. Imprisoned in the re-education camp until she was released, Hea Woo recalls the routine:5.30 am: Roll call in the barracks. “We lined up with our heads bowed until we were all accounted for. Then there was some time to wash ourselves.”6 am: Breakfast. “We [lined] up again and slowly moved through the barracks where the food was distributed. This took a lot of time. We got only a small cup full of rice. Maybe about two or three spoons in total.”8 am: Work. “We marched to outside the camp, to the countryside, where we had to do agricultural work until lunch time. There was no break. Prisoners have no right to rest.”12 noon: Lunch. “About the same amount of food as during breakfast and dinner.”2 pm: Back to work.6 pm: Criticism session. “We had to criticize each other and ourselves about the things we did wrong that day. After that, dinner.”8 pm: Ideological training. “The hardest part of the day. We were hungry and weary. Our eyes fell closed. But we had to stay awake and pay attention or we would be punished.”9.30 pm: Counting of the prisoners.10 pm: Go to bed.“Every day was like torture.,” she says. “People were dying and their corpses were burnt. The guards scattered the ashes over the road. We walked that road every day and each time I thought: One day, the other prisoners will walk over me.” Thankfully, Hea Woo’s premonition didn’t come true, and she was eventually able to escape from the prison, and from North Korea.