Long Road Home - Testimony of a North Korean Camp Survivor

Informationen zum Autor 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. Kim Suk-Young is assistant professor of theater and East Asian studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara. She is the author of the forthcoming book Illusive Utopia: Theater! Film! and Everyday Performance in North Korea. Klappentext Kim Yong shares a brutal account of life in a labor camp-a singularly despairing form of torture carried out by the secret state. Although gulags are known to exist in North Korea, little information is available about their organization and conduct, since prisoners rarely escape both the camps 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 hellish coal camp and witnessed firsthand the activities of Kim Jong-il's unconscionable regime. Zusammenfassung Long Road Home shares the remarkable story of the survivor of a North Korean labor camp! a former military official who spent six years in a gulag and experienced firsthand the brutality of an unconscionable regime. Presented here for the first time in its entirety! his story not only testifies to the atrocities being committed behind North Korea's wall of silence! but it also illuminates the daily struggle to maintain dignity and integrity in the face of unbelievable odds. Inhaltsverzeichnis PrefaceIntroductionTranslator's Note1. Coming of Age2. Living for the Great Leader3. Downfall of a Model Citizen4. In the Mouth of Death5. Escape6. Across the ContinentAfterword: Unfinished StoryNotes

Product details

• Authors: Suk-Young Kim, Yong Kim, Yong/ Suk-young Kim, Kim Yong, K Yong, Kim Yong
• Assisted by: Suk Young Kim (Translation)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.05.2009
• EAN: 9780231147460
• ISBN: 978-0-231-14746-0
• No. of pages: 184
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 220 mm x 20 mm
• Assisted by: Suk-Young Kim
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, Memoirs, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, Autobiography: historical, political & military, Autobiography: historical, political and military, Penology and punishment, North Korea, Political oppression & persecution, Political oppression and persecution, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs