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PublisherColumbia University Press
ISBN-100231147465
ISBN-139780231147460
eBay Product ID (ePID)71698322
Product Key Features
Number of Pages184 Pages
Publication NameLong Road Home : Testimony of a North Korean Camp Survivor
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2009
SubjectLabor & Industrial Relations, Sociology / General, Personal Memoirs, Modern / 20th Century, Political, Penology, Asia / Korea
TypeTextbook
AuthorYong Kim
Subject AreaPolitical Science, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.1 in
Item Weight13.7 Oz
Item Length0.8 in
Item Width0.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2008-044140
Reviews"[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, [Kim's] dispassionate account of how one man endured the unendurable offers a clue as to how such extreme inhumanity can occur., Compelling, but also terrifying. . . . One of the best ways to understand the institutional system of North Korea., "Kim gives us a marvellously unsympathetic portrait of a brain-washed apparatchik." -- Christian Oliver, Financial Times
Dewey Edition22
Grade FromCollege Graduate Student
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal365/.45092 B
Table Of ContentPreface Acknowledgments Author's Note Introduction, by Kim Suk-Young 1. Coming of Age 2. Living for the Great Leader 3. Downfall of a Model Citizen 4. In the Mouth of Death 5. Escape 6. Across the Continent Afterword: Unfinished Story Notes
SynopsisKim 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 that closely monitored its citizens. He owned an imported car and drove it freely throughout the country. He also encountered corruption at all levels, whether among party officials or Japanese trade partners, and took note of the illicit benefits that were awarded to some and cruelly denied to others. When accusations of treason stripped Kim Yong of his position, the loose distinction between those who prosper and those who suffer under Kim Jong-il became painfully clear. Kim Yong was thrown into a world of violence and terror, condemned to camp No. 14 in Hamkyeong province, North Korea's most notorious labor camp. As he worked a constant shift 2,400 feet underground, daylight became Kim's new luxury; as the months wore on, he became intimately acquainted with political prisoners, subhuman camp guards, and an apocalyptic famine that killed millions. After years of meticulous planning, and with the help of old friends, Kim escaped and came to the United States via China, Mongolia, and South Korea. 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 also illuminates the daily struggle to maintain dignity and integrity in the face of unbelievable hardship. Like the work of Solzhenitsyn, this rare portrait tells a story of resilience as it reveals the dark forms of oppression, torture, and ideological terror at work in our world today., 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.
LC Classification NumberHV9815.6.K56 2009
As told toKim, Suk-Young
