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The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag - Couverture souple

Kang, Chol-hwan; Rigoulot, Pierre

 
9780465011049: The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0465011047 ISBN 13 : 9780465011049
Editeur : Basic Books, 2005

Synopsis

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 Part horror story, part historical document, part memoir, part political tract, this record of one man's suffering gives eyewitness proof to an ongoing sorrowful chapter of modern history. New edition with a new preface by the author.

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À propos de l'auteur

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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Éditeur
Basic Books
Date d'édition
2005
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0465011047
ISBN 13 
9780465011049
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
272
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Personne responsable
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