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The Aquariums of Pyongyang : Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag / Kang Chol-Hwan and Pierre Rigoulot.

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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 fi...

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Main Authors: Kang, Ch'ŏr-hwan, 1968- (Author), Rigoulot, Pierre (Author)
Other title:Les Aquariums de Pyongyang.
Format: eBook
Language:English
French
Published: New York, NY : Basic Books, 2001.
Edition:Revised edition.
Subjects:
Kang, Ch'or-hwan, > 1968-
Political prisoners > Korea (North) > Biography.
Internment camps > Korea (North)
Forced labor > Korea (North)
Korea (North) > Social conditions.
Autobiographies.
Table of Contents:
  • INTRODUCTION: North Korea--the World's Last Stalinist Regime
  • ONE: A HAPPY CHILDHOOD IN PYONGYANG
  • TWO: MONEY AND THE REVOLUTION CAN GET ALONG
  • THREE: NEXT YEAR IN PYONGYANG
  • FOUR: IN A CONCENTRATION CAMP AT THE AGE OF NINE
  • FIVE: WORK GROUP NUMBER 10
  • SIX: THE WILD BOAR: A TEACHER ARMED AND READY TO STRIKE
  • SEVEN: DEATH OF A BLACK CHAMPION
  • EIGHT: CORN, ROACHES, AND SNAKE BRANDY
  • NINE: DEATH AT YODOK
  • TEN: THE MUCH-COVETED RABBITS
  • ELEVEN: MADNESS STALKS THE PRISONERS
  • TWELVE: BIWEEKLY CRITICISM AND SELF-CRITICISM
  • THIRTEEN: PUBLIC EXECUTIONS AND POSTMORTEM STONINGS
  • FOURTEEN: LOVE AT YODOK
  • FIFTEEN: SOJOURN IN THE MOUNTAIN
  • SIXTEEN: TEN YEARS IN THE CAMP: THANK YOU, KIM IL-SUNG
  • SEVENTEEN: THE NORTH KOREAN PARADISE
  • EIGHTEEN: THE CAMP THREATENS AGAIN
  • NINETEEN: ESCAPE TO CHINA
  • TWENTY: SMALL-TIME PROSTITUTION AND BIG-TIME SMUGGLING IN DALIAN
  • TWENTY-ONE: ARRIVAL IN SOUTH KOREA
  • TWENTY-TWO: ADAPTING TO A CAPITALIST WORLD
  • EPILOGUE: Pursuing Aid For North Korea.

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