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Aquariums Of Pyongyang: Ten Years In The North Korean Gulag
Aquariums Of Pyongyang Ten Years In The North Korean Gulag
Author: Kang Chol-hwan, Pierre Rigoulot
North Korea today is one of the last bastions of hard-line Communism. Until recently, no one ever managed to leave the country. No organized, active opposition movement exists, either at home or abroad. Western historians and researchers have had little access to information about North Korea apart from official Party documents and propaganda. T...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780465011056
ISBN-10: 0465011055
Publication Date: 10/3/2001
Pages: 256
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Publisher: Basic Books
Book Type: Hardcover
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A well-written and harrowing first-person account of life in a North Korean prison camp.
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I found this book extremely interesting, because glimpses into North Korea are so limited. Of course, you have the gruesome aspects of the gulag, but, the perspective on daily living (pre-famine) were so interesting.


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