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The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag by Kang Chol-Hwan,

The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag by Kang Chol-Hwan,
North Korea is today one of the last bastions of hard-line Communism. Its leaders have kept a tight grasp on their one-party regime, quashing any nascent opposition movements and sending all suspected dissidents to its brutal concentration camps for "re-education." Kang Chol-hwan is the first survivor of one of these camps to escape and tell his story to the world, documenting the extreme conditions in these gulags and providing a personal insight into life in North Korea. Part horror story, part historical document, part memoir, part political tract, this record of one man's suffering gives eyewitness proof to an ongoing sorrowful chapter of modern history.
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Comrades and Strangers: Behind the Closed Doors of North Korea
Comrades and Strangers: Behind the Closed Doors of North Korea
In 1987 Michael Harrold went to North Korea to work as English language adviser on translations of the speeches of the late President Kim Il Sung (the Great Leader) and his son and heir Kim Jong Il (then Dear Leader and now head of state). For seven years he lived in Pyongyang enjoying privileged access to the ruling classes and enjoying the confidence of the country s young elite. In this fascinating insight into the culture of North Korea he describes the hospitality of his hosts, how they were shaken by the Velvet Revolution of 1989  and many of the fascinating characters he met from South Korean and American GI defectors to his Korean minder and socialite friends. After seven years and having been caught passing South Korean music tapes to friends and going out without his minder to places forbidden to foreigners, he was asked to leave the country.
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Phyongsong, North Korea - Phyongsong is a city in North Korea, approximately 20 miles to the northeast of Pyongyang. It has a population of more than 100,000.

Economy of North Korea - North Korea's faltering economy and the breakdown of trade relations with the countries of the former Eastern bloc — especially following the fall of communist states in eastern Europe and the disintegration of the Soviet Union — have confronted Pyongyang with difficult policy choices. Other centrally planned economies in similar straits have opted for domestic economic reform and liberalization of trade and investment.

Korea Ponghwa General Corporation - Korea Ponghwa General Corporation is an industrial group headquartered in Pyongyang, North Korea. Ponghwa produces knitwear, business suits, underwear, shoes, nylon rucksacks and bags, winter coats, skiwear, sportswear, golf bags, hockey bags, and the company seems to be involved in Korea's well known eelskin garment and accessory industry.

Korea Computer Centre Sinhung Company - Korea Computer Centre Sinhung Company is a software development group headquartered in Pyongyang, North Korea. The company is involved in software on order, bioinformatics, video games, multimedia and recognition systems.



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'North Korea Nuclear' - 'North Korea Nuclear' The North Korean Nuclear Program Drawing on previously unpublished Russian archival materials, this book is the first detailed history 'north korea nuclear' and current analysis of the North Korean nuclear program. The contributors discuss Soviet-North Korean nuclear relations, economic 'north korea nuclear' and military aspects of the nuclear program, the nuclear energy sector, North Korea's negotiations with the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization, cooperative security, 'north korea nuclear' and U.S. policy. Unique in its ...

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