Aquariums Of Pyongyang: Ten Years In The North Korean Gulag; Author: Chol-Hwan, Kang; Author: Translator Reiner, Yair; Paperback

Author: Chol-Hwan, Kang; Author: Translator Reiner, Yair
Paperback
256 pages
Published: October 2002
The Perseus Books Group
ISBN: 0465011020

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 Part horror story, part historical document, part memoir, part political tract, this record of one man's suffering gives eyewitness proof to an ongoing sorrowful chapter of modern history.The first personal documentation of life in the North Korean labour camps from a survivior and escapee of the communist regime's prisons. From the age of nine, Kang Chol-Hwan grew up in North Korean labour camps and escaped to South Korea to document his personal life as a testimonial to the hardships and atrocities that still constitute the lives of several hundred thousand people living in the gulag today.