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| Title |
The Aquariums of Pyongyang (softcover) |
| Subtitle |
Ten Years in a North Korean Gulag |
| Author |
"Chol-hwan, Kang and Pierre Rigoulot" |
| Publisher |
Basic Books |
| Date |
2005 |
| Month |
August |
| Summary |
"First person account by Kang Chol-hwan of the ten years that his family and him spent imprisoned in the North Korean Gulag. The family was arrested and imprisoned without charges, a trial or conviction based on being the family members of his grandfather, who was a high government official who was an outspoken critic of the North Korean government's bureaucracy. This is the first personal account of the North Korean Gulag written by an escapee from North Korea." |