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The Aquariums of Pyongyang : Ten Years in a North Korean Gulag
The Aquariums of Pyongyang Ten Years in a North Korean Gulag
Author: Kang Chol-Hwan, Pierre Rigoulot
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...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780465011018
ISBN-10: 0465011012
Publication Date: 9/2001
Pages: 238
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Publisher: Basic Books
Book Type: Hardcover
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Well-written and intense. Strong imagery of life in a North Korean work camp. The author lives through the horror and inhumanity of life in the closed, communist North and lives to tell about it. Sad and poignant, it is a must-read.


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