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The Aquariums of Pyongyang

The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag

Published:
2000
Audiobook Available

Kang recounts his life as a boy growing up in Pyongyang during the Sixties after his Korean family returns to North Korea from their affluent lives in Japan. After Kang’s grandfather is accused of high treason, Kang spends ten years of his life surviving in a remote labor camp or gulag. Kang was only nine years old when he was first imprisoned at the Yodok camp in 1977.

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