The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag by Kang, Chol-Hwan

The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag

Destined to become a classic (Iris Chang, author of The Rape of Nanking), this harrowing memoir of...
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Author: Chol-Hwan Kang
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The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag by Kang, Chol-Hwan

The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag

€30,18

The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag

€30,18
Author: Chol-Hwan Kang
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Destined to become a classic (Iris Chang, author of The Rape of Nanking), this harrowing memoir of life inside North Korea was the first account to emerge from the notoriously secretive country -- and it remains one of the most terrifying.

Amid escalating nuclear tensions, Kim Jong-un and North Korea's other leaders have kept a tight grasp on their one-party state, quashing any nascent opposition movements and sending all suspected dissidents to its brutal concentration camps for re-education.

Kang Chol-Hwan is the first survivor of one of these camps to escape and tell his story to the world, documenting the extreme conditions in these gulags and providing a personal insight into life in North Korea. Sent to the notorious labor camp Yodok when he was nine years old, Kang observed frequent public executions and endured forced labor and near-starvation rations for ten years. In 1992, he escaped to South Korea, where he found God and now advocates for human rights in North Korea.

Part horror story, part historical document, part memoir, part political tract, this book brings together unassailable firsthand experience, setting one young man's personal suffering in the wider context of modern history, giving eyewitness proof to the abuses perpetrated by the North Korean regime.

Author: Chol-Hwan Kang, Pierre Rigoulot
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 08/01/2005
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.53lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.40w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780465011049
Audience: Young Adult

About the Author
Kang Chol-Hwan is founder and president of the North Korea Strategy Center.

Pierre Rigoulot is a journalist, historian, and human rights activist living in Paris, France. He is the author of numerous books on the history of political repression and contributed the North Korean chapter to the bestselling The Black Book of Communism.

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