Long Road Home: Testimony of a North Korean Camp Survivor

by Suk-Young Kim and Yong Kim

Book Overview

Kim 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231147465
• ISBN13: 9780231147460
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.5"