Aquariums of Pyongyang by Kang Chol-Hwan

Aquariums of Pyongyang by Kang Chol-Hwan

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Aquariums of Pyongyang by Kang Chol-Hwan

The first personal documentation of life in the North Korean labor camps from a survivor and escapee of the communist regime's prisons. North Korea is today one of the last bastions of hard-line Communism. Its leaders have kept a tight grasp on their one-party regime, 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. Part horror story, part historical document, part memoir, part political tract, this record of one man's suffering gives eyewitness proof to an ongoing sorrowful chapter of modern history.
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ISBN 13 9780465011025
ISBN 10 0465011020
Title Aquariums of Pyongyang
Author Kang Chol Hwan
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Basic Books
Year published 2002-09-04
Number of pages 254
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