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

Author: Chol-hwan Kang Year: 2000 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, Memoirs Culture: Asia Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads LibraryThing Amazon ISBNs: 9780465011049 0465011047

As tensions between the US and North North Korea continue to escalate, stories of life inside our long-time opponent are more relevant than ever. North Korea's leaders have consistently 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 Part horror story, part historical document, part memoir, part political tract, this record of one man's suffering gives eyewitness proof to an ongoing sorrowful chapter of modern history. Similar books: This is Paradise! by Hyok Kang Under the Same Sky by Joseph Kim The Girl with Seven Names by Hyeonseo Lee Dear Leader by Jang Jin-sung North Korea Undercover by John Sweeney A Thousand Miles to Freedom by Eunsun Kim Escape from Camp 14 by Blaine Harden A River in Darkness by Masaji Ishikawa In Order to Live by Yeonmi Park The Impossible State by Victor Cha The Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot by Blaine Harden A Kim Jong-Il Production by Paul Fischer Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader by Bradley K. Martin The real North Korea by Andrei Lankov Red Azalea by Anchee Min Leaving Mother Lake by Yang Erche Namu In the Absence of Sun by Helie Lee My Name is Number 4 by Ting-Xing Ye The Year of Finding Memory by Judy Fong Bates