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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 Part horror story, part historical document, part memoir, part political tract, this record of one man's suffering gives eyewitness proof to an ongoing sorrowful chapter of modern history. New edition with a new preface by the author.Product Identifiers
PublisherBasic Books
ISBN-139780465011049
eBay Product ID (ePID)95703233
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SubjectHistory
Publication Year2005
Number of Pages272 Pages
Publication NameThe Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag
LanguageEnglish
TypeTextbook
AuthorChol-Hwan Kang, Pierre Rigoulot
FormatPaperback
Dimensions
Item Height210 mm
Item Width140 mm
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Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
Title_AuthorChol-Hwan Kang, Pierre Rigoulot