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Description edit
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... read more
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People edit
- Kang Chol-Hwan: The author, who was sent with his family to a North Korean prison camp at the age of 9.
- Kim Il-sung: North Korea's "Great Leader."
- Kim Jong-il: North Korea's "Dear Leader," Kim Il-sung's son. The first exemplar of a communist dynasty, where power went from father to son.
- Grandmother: Add a description of this character.
- Madame Yi
- Grandfather
Setting & Locations edit
A North Korean gulag in the mountains.
- North Korea
- Yodok: The gulag (also described by the author as a concentration camp) to which the author and his family are sent.
- Japan
- Pyongyang
- China
- South Korea
- Seoul
- Kyoto
- Nampo
- Dalian
- Pyungsung
- Shenyang
- Haesan
First Sentence edit
In the 1960s, North Korea's disaster was not yet on the horizon.
Table of Contents edit
Preface for the Revised Edition
Introduction: North Korea the Worlds Last Stalinist Regime
1 A Happy Childhood In PyongYang
2. Money and Revolution Can Get Along
3. Next Year in Pyongyang
4. In a Concentration Camp at the Age of Nine
5. Work Group Number 10
6. The Wild Boar: A Teacher Armed and Ready to Strike
7. Death of a Black Champion
8. Corn, Roaches, and Snake Brandy
9. Death at Yodok
10.The Much-Coveted Rabbits
11. Madness Stalks the Prisoners
12. Biweekly Criticism and Selfcriticism
13. Public Executions and Postmortem Stonings
14. Love at Yodok
15. Sojourn in the Mountain
16. Ten Years in the Camp: Thank You Kim Il-sung
17. The North Korean Paradise
18. The Camp Threatens Again
19. Escape to China
20. Small-Time Prostitution and Big-Time Smuggling in Dalian
21. Arrival in South Korea
22. Adapting to a Capitalist World
Epilogue: Pursuing Aid for North Korea
Authors & Contributors edit
- Kang Chol-hwan (Author)
- Pierre Rigoulot (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: Add the language.
Publisher: Basic Books
Country: Add the country of publication.
Publication Date: 24 August 2005
ISBN: Add the ISBN.
Page Count: 272
Publisher: Basic Books
Country: Add the country of publication.
Publication Date: 24 August 2005
ISBN: Add the ISBN.
Page Count: 272
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 951.9304'3'092
Subjects edit
- Books › History › Asia › Korea › North
- Books › Law › Constitutional Law › Human Rights
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- Books › Travel › Asia
- Books › Religion & Spirituality › Christianity
- Books › Biographies & Memoirs › Travel
- Books › Biographies & Memoirs › Memoirs
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