disabled due to the physical torture she was subjected to for well over a year, including but not limited to water torture. Along with fellow North Korean prison camp internees Kang Chol-Hwan and An Hyuk (both were in Yodok concentration camp), she received the Democracy Award from the American non-profit organization National Endowment for Democracy in July 2003. Reception Lee's accusations of human experimentation in North Korea have been described as "very plausible" by a senior US official quoted anonymously by NBC News. The authenticity of some of Lee's accounts of North Korean prison camps have been questioned by some South Korean researchers and North Korean defectors. See also Human rights in North Korea Freedom of religion in North Korea References Further reading United States Senate Hearings: Testimony of Ms. Soon Ok Lee – Lee Soon-oks testimony to the US Senate Judiciary Committee June 21, 2002 Lee, Soon Ok. Eyes of the Tailless Animals: Prison Memoirs of a North Korean Woman. Living Sacrifice Book Co, 1999. 꼬리 없는 짐승들의 눈빛 "Made in North Korea", Harper's Magazine Vol. 305 Issue 1830, November 2002, pp. 20–22. External links "A survivor: Soon Ok Lee", Crisis in the Koreas, MSNBC, 2003 "Soon Ok Lee", World Christian Ministries "Interview: Soon Ok Lee", AsiaLink, 2003 Martin, Bradley K. "Under the loving care of the fatherly leader", 2004; p. 611 "The Hidden Gulag: Exposing North Korea’s Prison Camps", Committee for Human Rights in North Korea "Praying for a Revolution in North Korea", Persecution.tv; pp. 6–7 Human rights abuses in North Korea North Korean defectors Living people People from North Hamgyong People from Chongjin North Korean prisoners and detainees Prisoners and detainees of North Korea 1947 births North Korean Christians North Korean women activists 20th-century North Korean women 21st-century North Korean women Converts to Christianity from atheism or agnosticism