Girl with Black Makeup: Escapee from North Korea

By Sharon Jang

I was born in 1991, but the course of my life was determined in 1953, near the end of the Korean War. My grandfather, a South Korean soldier, was captured by North Korean forces. He endured imprisonment, beatings, and torture, and after his release, he was forced to labor in a coal mine. Similarly, my mother was compelled to work in a coal mine, where she met and married a man whose family had also been sentenced to the same fate. As the child of two parents condemned to coal mining, my destiny was predetermined. After completing high school, I too was assigned by North Korean authorities to work in a coal mine. Being a descendant of a South Korean POW, free will was impossible for me when I was growing up in North Korea.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0D7W3CY25
• ISBN13: 9798325803116
• Release Date: June 2024
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 170 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.4" x 5.0"