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Long Road Home: Testimony of a North Korean Camp Survivor
Yong Kim
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Description for Long Road Home: Testimony of a North Korean Camp Survivor
Hardback. Num Pages: 184 pages, 4 illus.; two maps. BIC Classification: 1FPKN; BM; JKVP1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 148 x 20. Weight in Grams: 372.
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 former military official who spent six years in a gulag and experienced firsthand the brutality of an unconscionable regime. As a lieutenant colonel in the North Korean army, Kim Yong enjoyed unprecedented privilege in a society ... Read more
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 former military official who spent six years in a gulag and experienced firsthand the brutality of an unconscionable regime. As a lieutenant colonel in the North Korean army, Kim Yong enjoyed unprecedented privilege in a society ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
Number of Pages
184
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231147460
SKU
V9780231147460
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99-1
About Yong Kim
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 ... Read more
Reviews for Long Road Home: Testimony of a North Korean Camp Survivor
Kim gives us a marvelously unsympathetic portrait of a brain-washed apparatchik.
Christian Oliver Financial Times [Kim's] dispassionate account of how one man endured the unendurable offers a clue as to how such extreme inhumanity can occur.
Donald Richie Japan Times A reminder of the brutality of the North Korean regime.
John Feffer Korean Quarterly
Christian Oliver Financial Times [Kim's] dispassionate account of how one man endured the unendurable offers a clue as to how such extreme inhumanity can occur.
Donald Richie Japan Times A reminder of the brutality of the North Korean regime.
John Feffer Korean Quarterly