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The aquariums of Pyongyang
- 264 pages · about 4 hours
- First published 2005
- 5 editions
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1 About this book
The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag (Korean: 수용소의 노래), by Kang Chol-hwan and Pierre Rigoulot, is an account of the imprisonment of Kang Chol-Hwan and his family in the Yodok concentration camp in North Korea.
It begins with an introduction by co-author Pierre Rigoulot describing Kang's new life in the Republic of Korea, then continues with a brief history of both North and South Korea since the Korean War in 1953. While incarcerated, Kang claims to have met Pak Seung-zin, a member of the North Korea national football team in the 1966 FIFA World Cup. He says that Pak and other players had been imprisoned after returning from the tour. However, in the documentary film The Game of Their Lives, Pak and the other players were interviewed and they denied Kang's claim that they had been imprisoned.
The most recent publication in 2005 includes an account of his meeting with former U.S. President George W. Bush.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Political prisoners
- Biography
- Korea, social conditions
- Social conditions
- Concentration camps
- Forced labor
2 About Kang Chol-Hwan
Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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