The Aquariums of Pyongyang by Kang Chol-Hwan, Pierre Rigoulot, Yair Reiner
Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag
How much do you really know about North Korea? With the global situation as it is, Americans and others need to understand more about the problems we are facing. The Aquariums of Pyongyang by Kang Chol-Hwan, Pierre Rigoulot, Yair Reiner may be a source of good information for you.
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 Part horror story, part historical document, part memoir, part political tract, this record of one man's suffering gives eyewitness proof to an ongoing sorrowful chapter of modern history.
About the Author
Kang Chol-Hwan lives and works in Seoul, where he is a staff writer for Chosun Ilbo, a daily newspaper in South Korea. Pierre Rigoulot is a journalist, historian, and human rights activist living in Paris, France. He is the author of numerous books on the history of political repression and contributed the North Korean chapter to the best-selling The Black Book of Communism (Harvard University Press).
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And the Wind Blew Cold by Richard M. Bassett, Lewis H. Carlson |
The Aquariums of Pyongyang by Kang Chol-Hwan, Pierre Rigoulot, Yair Reiner |
Avoiding the Apocalypse by Marcus Noland, C. Fred Bergsten |
Disarming Strangers by Leon V. Sigal |
East of Chosin by Roy Edgar Appleman |
Facts Tell by Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea |
From Stalin to Kim Il Sung by Andrei Lankov, A. N. LAN'Kov |
The Great North Korean Famine by Andrew S. Natsios |
In Enemy Hands by Larry Zellers |
Korean Atrocity! by Philip D. Chinnery |
Korean Endgame by Selig S. Harrison |
Korea's Future and the Great Powers by Nicholas Eberstadt, Richard J. Ellings |
Korea's Place in the Sun by Bruce Cumings |
Negotiating on the Edge by Scott Snyder |
The North and South Korean Political Systems by Song Chol Yang, Sung Chul Yang, Song-Ch'ol Yang |
The North Korean Revolution, 1945-1950 by Charles K. Armstrong |
North Korea and the Bomb by Michael J. Mazarr |
North Korea by Han S. Park - The Politics of Unconventional Wisdom |
North Korea through the Looking Glass by Kong Dan Oh, Ralph C. Hassig, Kongdan Oh |
North Korea Under Communism by Erik Cornell |
North and South Korea by William Dudley |
One Anthropologist, Two Worlds by Choong Soon Kim |
Remembered Prisoners of a Forgotten War by Lewis H. Carlson |
The Two Koreas by Don Oberdorfer |
White Tigers by Ben S. Malcom, Ron Martz