South Pyongan Province
On September 24, 2014, the DPRK Permanent Representative Department to the United Nations issued a communique refuting the DPRK human rights report, including the "full text of the Shin Dong-hyuk information (신동혁 자료전문)." Next to the information also given in the videos, it included additional information on Shin's birthplace and his father: Shin was allegedly born in Soksan-ri, Pukchang, South Pyongan Province (평안남도 북창군 석산리)and later moved into Pongchang-ri, Pukchang, South Pyongan Province (평안남도 북창군 봉창리). He had committed an illegal border crossing to China and had been repatriated in 2002. Shin's father was born in 1944 in Ryongbuk-ri, Mundok, South Pyongan Province, not 1946. It was said that his father have married Shin's mother in 1972 and sent to a prison in 1975 for theft of state property (국가재산략취행위죄).