Kang Chol-hwan – Oslo Freedom Forum 2010
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The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag $16.95 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 conditio… |
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This is Paradise!: My North Korean Childhood $6.49 This is Paradise! is a shocking and moving portrayal of scenes of every day life in North Korea, a secretive and brutal nation. Hyok Kang writes of the public executions, the labor camps and mines, the punishment for “anti-social behavior,” the secret watching of Beijing television, and the spies everywhere who help enforce the regime. When the famine comes, so does death by starvation of friends … |
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