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Long Road Home: Testimony of a North Korean Camp Survivor

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Availability:In StockContributor:Yong Kim, Suk-Young Kim (With)Publish date:2017-02-07Pages:184
Language:EnglishPublisher:Columbia University PressISBN-13:9780231147477ISBN-10:231147473UPC:9780231147477Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Memoirs, Asia, PenologyBook Topic:KoreaSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.5004Product ID:SC0VP73PF4

Long Road Home: Testimony of a North Korean Camp Survivor

Kim Yong shares his harrowing account of life in a labor camp--a singularly despairing form of torture carried out by the secret state. Although it is known that gulags exist in North Korea, little information is available about their organization and conduct, for prisoners rarely escape both incarceration and the country alive. Long Road Home shares the remarkable story of one such survivor, a...

Language:EnglishPublisher:Columbia University PressISBN-13:9780231147477ISBN-10:231147473UPC:9780231147477Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Memoirs, Asia, PenologyBook Topic:KoreaSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.5004Product ID:SC0VP73PF4

Kim Yong was a lieutenant colonel in the North Korean National Security Agency and a career military officer earning foreign currency until he was suddenly sent to a labor camp in 1993. After six years he escaped through China to South Korea and then, in 2003, came to the United States. He now resides in Seoul, Korea.

Kim Suk-Young is a professor at the School of Theater, Film, and Television at...
Publisher: Columbia University Press

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