Aquariums of Pyongyang Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag

Name: Aquariums of Pyongyang Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag
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ISBN: 9780465011049

ISBN-10: 0465011047

ISBN-13: 9780465011049

Edition: N/A

Authors: Chol-Hwan Kang, Pierre Rigoulot, Chol-Hwan Kang

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When President George W. Bush sought to understand the grim realities of human rights abuses in North Korea, he and his closest advisers turned to Kang Chol-hwan's harrowing memoir of growing up in a North Korean concentration camp. When he was nine years old, the author-along with members of his family-was sent to the notorious labor camp Yodok, where for ten years he observed frequent public executions and endured forced labor and near-starvation rations. He eventually escaped to South Korea and now, working as a journalist, gives testimony to the atrocities endured by an estimated two hundred thousand North Korean citizens who are still detained in the gulags. Part horror story, part…

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List price: $17.99
Publisher: Basic Books
Publication date: 8/24/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.660
Language: English



Preface for the Revised Edition


Introduction: North Korea-the World's Last Stalinist Regime



A Happy Childhood in Pyongyang



Money and the Revolution Can Get Along



Next Year in Pyongyang!



In a Concentration Camp at the Age of Nine



Work Group Number 10



The Wild Boar: A Teacher Armed and Ready to Strike



Death of a Black Champion



Corn, Roaches, and Snake Brandy



Death at Yodok



The Much-Coveted Rabbits



Madness Stalks the Prisoners



Biweekly Criticism and Self-criticism



Public Executions and Postmortem Stonings



Love at Yodok



Sojourn in the Mountain



Ten Years in the Camp: Thank You, Kim Il-sung!



The North Korean Paradise



The Camp Threatens Again



Escape to China



Small-Time Prostitution and Big-Time Smuggling in Dalian



Arrival in South Korea



Adapting to a Capitalist World


Epilogue: Pursuing Aid for North Korea