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Amid all the suffocations and electrocutions ... there's a point at which diminishing returns kick in.
Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times
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On September 4, 1984, democracy movement leader Kim Jong Tae is arrested and taken to an infamous interrogation facility in Namyeong-dong. For the next 22 days, he would be cruelly and continuously tortured in all manners by interrogators intent on forcing him to confess to communist collaboration.
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