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

Rigoulot, Pierre, Kang, Chol-hwan

ISBN 10: 0465011047 / ISBN 13: 9780465011049

Edité par Basic Books, 2005

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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 Part horror story, part historical document, part memoir, part political tract, this record of one man's suffering gives eyewitness proof to an ongoing sorrowful chapter of modern history.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.

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).

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the...
Éditeur : Basic Books
Date d'édition : 2005
Reliure : Paperback
Etat : Very Good