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WoWasis book review: North Korean Gulag… The Aquariums of Pyongyang

By herbrunbridge Posted in Crime Scams & Espionage, Culture & History, Korea, Literature, Politics , , , | 1 Comment »

For anyone wishing to know more about what goes on behind the scenes in North Korea, Kang Chol-hwan’s The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag (2000, ISBN 0-465-01102-0) is  a must- read. Kang’s expat North Korean family became wealthy in Japan and had a good life. At the urging of his […]

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