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Escape from North Korea: The Untold Story of Asia's Underground Railroad
Kirkpatrick Me
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Description for Escape from North Korea: The Untold Story of Asia's Underground Railroad
Paperback. Num Pages: 368 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPKN; JFFD; JPHX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 542.
From the world's most repressive state comes rare good news: the escape to freedom of a small number of its people. It is a crime to leave North Korea. Yet increasing numbers of North Koreans dare to flee. They go first to neighboring China, which rejects them as criminals, then on to Southeast Asia or Mongolia, and finally to South Korea, the United States, and other free countries. They travel along a secret route known as the new underground railroad. With a journalist's grasp of events and a novelist's ear for narrative, Melanie Kirkpatrick tells the story of the ... Read more
From the world's most repressive state comes rare good news: the escape to freedom of a small number of its people. It is a crime to leave North Korea. Yet increasing numbers of North Koreans dare to flee. They go first to neighboring China, which rejects them as criminals, then on to Southeast Asia or Mongolia, and finally to South Korea, the United States, and other free countries. They travel along a secret route known as the new underground railroad. With a journalist's grasp of events and a novelist's ear for narrative, Melanie Kirkpatrick tells the story of the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Encounter Books
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781594037290
SKU
V9781594037290
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Kirkpatrick Me
Melanie Kirkpatrick is a journalist, writer, and senior fellow at the Hudson Institute. She was deputy editor of the editorial page of The Wall Street Journal, where she was a longtime member of the editorial board and op-ed editor. She lives in rural Connecticut with her husband, Jack David.
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