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Escaping North Korea

Mike Kim

Author : Mike Kim
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2010-05-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780742557338

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The first of its kind, this book provides a unique inside look into the hidden world of ordinary North Koreans. Mike Kim, who worked with refugees on the Chinese border for four years, recounts their experiences of enduring famine, sex-trafficking, and torture, as well as the inspirational stories of those who overcame tremendous adversity to escape the repressive regime of their homeland and make new lives. One of the few Americans granted entry into the secretive "Hermit Kingdom," Kim came to know theisolated country and its people intimately. His North Korean friends entrusted their secrets to him as they revealed the government's brainwashing tactics and confessed their true thoughts about the repressive regime that so rigidly controls their lives.Civilians and soldiers alike spoke of what North Koreans think of Americans and war with America. Children remembered the suffering they endured through the famine. Women and girls recalled their horrific experiences at the hands of sex-traffickers. Former political prisoners shared their memories of beatings, torture, and executions in the gulags. With the permission of these courageous individuals, Kim now shares their stories and recounts his dramatic experiences leading North Koreans to asylum through the six-thousand-mile modern-day underground railway through Asia. His unflinching narrative exposes the truth about North Korea, stripping away the last veils that still shroud this brutal dictatorship.

A Thousand Miles to Freedom

Eunsun Kim,Sébastien Falletti

Author : Eunsun Kim,Sébastien Falletti
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781466870888

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A Thousand Miles to Freedom by Eunsun Kim,Sébastien Falletti Pdf

Eunsun Kim was born in North Korea, one of the most secretive and oppressive countries in the modern world. As a child Eunsun loved her country...despite her school field trips to public executions, daily self-criticism sessions, and the increasing gnaw of hunger as the country-wide famine escalated. By the time she was eleven years old, Eunsun's father and grandparents had died of starvation, and Eunsun was in danger of the same. Finally, her mother decided to escape North Korea with Eunsun and her sister, not knowing that they were embarking on a journey that would take them nine long years to complete. Before finally reaching South Korea and freedom, Eunsun and her family would live homeless, fall into the hands of Chinese human traffickers, survive a North Korean labor camp, and cross the deserts of Mongolia on foot. Now, Eunsun is sharing her remarkable story to give voice to the tens of millions of North Koreans still suffering in silence. Told with grace and courage, her memoir is a riveting exposé of North Korea's totalitarian regime and, ultimately, a testament to the strength and resilience of the human spirit.

Escape from North Korea

Melanie Kirkpatrick

Author : Melanie Kirkpatrick
Publisher : Encounter Books
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781594037320

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From the world’s most repressive state comes rare good news: the escape to freedom of a small number of its people. It is a crime to leave North Korea. Yet increasing numbers of North Koreans dare to flee. They go first to neighboring China, which rejects them as criminals, then on to Southeast Asia or Mongolia, and finally to South Korea, the United States, and other free countries. They travel along a secret route known as the new underground railroad. With a journalist’s grasp of events and a novelist’s ear for narrative, Melanie Kirkpatrick tells the story of the North Koreans’ quest for liberty. Travelers on the new underground railroad include women bound to Chinese men who purchased them as brides, defectors carrying state secrets, and POWs from the Korean War held captive in the North for more than half a century. Their conductors are brokers who are in it for the money as well as Christians who are in it to serve God. The Christians see their mission as the liberation of North Korea one person at a time. Just as escaped slaves from the American South educated Americans about the evils of slavery, the North Korean fugitives are informing the world about the secretive country they fled. Escape from North Korea describes how they also are sowing the seeds for change within North Korea itself. Once they reach sanctuary, the escapees channel news back to those they left behind. In doing so, they are helping to open their information-starved homeland, exposing their countrymen to liberal ideas, and laying the intellectual groundwork for the transformation of the totalitarian regime that keeps their fellow citizens in chains.

Escape from Camp 14

Blaine Harden

Author : Blaine Harden
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781101561263

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With a New Foreword The heartwrenching New York Times bestseller about the only known person born inside a North Korean prison camp to have escaped. North Korea’s political prison camps have existed twice as long as Stalin’s Soviet gulags and twelve times as long as the Nazi concentration camps. No one born and raised in these camps is known to have escaped. No one, that is, except Shin Dong-hyuk. In Escape From Camp 14, Blaine Harden unlocks the secrets of the world’s most repressive totalitarian state through the story of Shin’s shocking imprisonment and his astounding getaway. Shin knew nothing of civilized existence—he saw his mother as a competitor for food, guards raised him to be a snitch, and he witnessed the execution of his mother and brother. The late “Dear Leader” Kim Jong Il was recognized throughout the world, but his country remains sealed as his third son and chosen heir, Kim Jong Eun, consolidates power. Few foreigners are allowed in, and few North Koreans are able to leave. North Korea is hungry, bankrupt, and armed with nuclear weapons. It is also a human rights catastrophe. Between 150,000 and 200,000 people work as slaves in its political prison camps. These camps are clearly visible in satellite photographs, yet North Korea’s government denies they exist. Harden’s harrowing narrative exposes this hidden dystopia, focusing on an extraordinary young man who came of age inside the highest security prison in the highest security state. Escape from Camp 14 offers an unequalled inside account of one of the world’s darkest nations. It is a tale of endurance and courage, survival and hope.

Every Falling Star

Sungju Lee,Susan Elizabeth McClelland

Author : Sungju Lee,Susan Elizabeth McClelland
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-13
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781613123409

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Every Falling Star by Sungju Lee,Susan Elizabeth McClelland Pdf

Written for a young audience, this intense memoir explores the harsh realities of life on the streets in contemporary North Korea. Every Falling Star is the memoir of Sungju Lee, who at the age of twelve was forced to live on the streets of North Korea and fend for himself. To survive, Sungju creates a gang and lives by thieving, fighting, begging, and stealing rides on cargo trains. Sungju richly recreates his scabrous story, depicting what it was like for a boy alone to create a new family with his gang, “his brothers,” to daily be hungry and to fear arrest, imprisonment, and even execution. This riveting memoir allows young readers to learn about other cultures where freedoms they take for granted do not exist.

My Freedom Trip

Frances Park,Ginger Park

Author : Frances Park,Ginger Park
Publisher : Boyds Mills Press
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781590788264

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The story of a young girl's escape from North Korea, based on the life of the authors' mother, Soo Park.

Dear Leader

Jang Jin-sung

Author : Jang Jin-sung
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781476766560

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"In this rare insider's view into contemporary North Korea, a high-ranking counterintelligence agent describes his life as a former poet laureate to Kim Jong-il and his breathtaking escape to freedom. "The General will now enter the room." Everyone turns to stone. Not moving my head, I direct my eyes to a point halfway up the archway where Kim Jong-il's face will soon appear... As North Korea's State Poet Laureate, Jang Jin-sung led a charmed life. With food provisions (even as the country suffered through its great famine), a travel pass, access to strictly censored information, and audiences with Kim Jong-il himself, his life in Pyongyang seemed safe and secure. But this privileged existence was about to be shattered. When a strictly forbidden magazine he lent to a friend goes missing, Jang Jin-sung must flee for his life. Never before has a member of the elite described the inner workings of this totalitarian state and its propaganda machine. An astonishing expose; told through the heart-stopping story of Jang Jin-sung's escape to South Korea, Dear Leader is a rare and unprecedented insight into the world's most secretive and repressive regime"--

A River in Darkness

Masaji Ishikawa

Author : Masaji Ishikawa
Publisher : Amazon Crossing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06
Category : Caste-based discrimination
ISBN : 1542047196

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Previously published in Japan in 2000. Translated from Japanese by Risa Kobayashi and Martin Brown. First published in English by AmazonCrossing in 2017.

Escape to Korea

James DeVries

Author : James DeVries
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2006-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780595411405

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Occasionally you run across an outstanding individual who seems to stand out and excel in whatever they do. Jeff Lacy is such a person. This story follows Jeff through some of his exciting adventures, starting on a submarine patrol to the Western Pacific. While on patrol Jeff participates in a secret mission ashore, which results in being captured by the Russians. This is a story about the ordeal of their brutal interrogation sessions, then Jeff and Davy Black escape and we follow their evasion tactics until recapture this time by the North Koreans. Following repatriation Jeff gets an assignment to COMSUBLANT staff and later with the Beach Jumpers. While attending planning meetings in Washington, he interrupts an attempted hit on a prominent District of Columbia politician by one of his Russian prison camp interrogators. Jeff then participates in tailing and eventually meeting his Russian interrogator.

In Order to Live

Yeonmi Park,Maryanne Vollers

Author : Yeonmi Park,Maryanne Vollers
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780698409361

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“I am most grateful for two things: that I was born in North Korea, and that I escaped from North Korea.” - Yeonmi Park "One of the most harrowing stories I have ever heard - and one of the most inspiring." - The Bookseller “Park's remarkable and inspiring story shines a light on a country whose inhabitants live in misery beyond comprehension. Park's important memoir showcases the strength of the human spirit and one young woman's incredible determination to never be hungry again.” —Publishers Weekly In In Order to Live, Yeonmi Park shines a light not just into the darkest corners of life in North Korea, describing the deprivation and deception she endured and which millions of North Korean people continue to endure to this day, but also onto her own most painful and difficult memories. She tells with bravery and dignity for the first time the story of how she and her mother were betrayed and sold into sexual slavery in China and forced to suffer terrible psychological and physical hardship before they finally made their way to Seoul, South Korea—and to freedom. Park confronts her past with a startling resilience. In spite of everything, she has never stopped being proud of where she is from, and never stopped striving for a better life. Indeed, today she is a human rights activist working determinedly to bring attention to the oppression taking place in her home country. Park’s testimony is heartbreaking and unimaginable, but never without hope. This is the human spirit at its most indomitable.

I Escaped North Korea!

Scott Peters,Ellie Crowe

Author : Scott Peters,Ellie Crowe
Publisher : Best Day Books for Young Readers
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1951019032

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I Escaped North Korea! by Scott Peters,Ellie Crowe Pdf

From multi-award-winning Ellie Crowe and bestselling children's author Scott Peters comes a gripping story about one refugee's escape from the oppression of North Korea.14-year-old Dae has been taught that his country's fearless leaders are like gods. Yet the painfully skinny boy can't help wondering if something's off, because all his family has to eat is watery porridge made from grass.At school, Dae and his friends are so hungry that it's hard to play 'Bash the American' in the schoolyard. In class, the boys and girls bow before the leaders' giant portraits, their clothes flapping around their bony limbs. Dae begins to question why their rulers look so well fed.When Dae's beloved parents fall into trouble, the young teen must fend for himself. Dae begins to dream of rebellion-of fleeing across the forbidden border into China to look for work. For how else can he help free his family?But can the starving boy survive the deadly crossing? It would take all of his remaining strength to succeed.Still, Dae becomes certain of one thing . . .He must escape!

How I Became a North Korean

Krys Lee

Author : Krys Lee
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780399563935

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"Lee takes us into urgent and emotional novelistic terrain: the desperate and tenuous realms defectors are forced to inhabit after escaping North Korea.” –Adam Johnson, author of The Orphan Master’s Son "The more confusing and horrible our world becomes, the more critical the role of fiction in communicating both the facts and the meaning of other people’s lives. Krys Lee joins writers like Anthony Marra, Khaled Hosseini and Elnathan John in this urgent work." –San Francisco Chronicle Yongju is an accomplished student from one of North Korea's most prominent families. Jangmi, on the other hand, has had to fend for herself since childhood, most recently by smuggling goods across the border. Then there is Danny, a Chinese-American teenager whose quirks and precocious intelligence have long made him an outcast in his California high school. These three disparate lives converge when they flee their homes, finding themselves in a small Chinese town just across the river from North Korea. As they fight to survive in a place where danger seems to close in on all sides, in the form of government informants, husbands, thieves, abductors, and even missionaries, they come to form a kind of adoptive family. But will Yongju, Jangmi and Danny find their way to the better lives they risked everything for? Transporting the reader to one of the least-known and most threatening environments in the world, and exploring how humanity persists even in the most desperate circumstances, How I Became a North Korean is a brilliant and essential first novel by one of our most promising writers. A FINALIST FOR THE 2016 CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal One of The Millions' most anticipated books of the second half of 2016 One of Elle.com's "11 Best Books to Read in August" One of Bookpage's "Six Stellar Summer Debuts"

The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector’s Story

Hyeonseo Lee

Author : Hyeonseo Lee
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780007554867

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The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector’s Story by Hyeonseo Lee Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An extraordinary insight into life under one of the world’s most ruthless and secretive dictatorships – and the story of one woman’s terrifying struggle to avoid capture/repatriation and guide her family to freedom.

Escaping North Korea

Mike Kim

Author : Mike Kim
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2008-07-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780742578647

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The first of its kind, this book provides a unique inside look into the hidden world of ordinary North Koreans. Mike Kim, who worked with refugees on the Chinese border for four years, recounts their experiences of enduring famine, sex-trafficking, and torture, as well as the inspirational stories of those who overcame tremendous adversity to escape the repressive regime of their homeland and make new lives. One of the few Americans granted entry into the secretive "Hermit Kingdom," Kim came to know the isolated country and its people intimately. His North Korean friends entrusted their secrets to him as they revealed the government's brainwashing tactics and confessed their true thoughts about the repressive regime that so rigidly controls their lives. Civilians and soldiers alike spoke of what North Koreans think of Americans and war with America. Children remembered the suffering they endured through the famine. Women and girls recalled their horrific experiences at the hands of sex-traffickers. Former political prisoners shared their memories of beatings, torture, and executions in the gulags. With the permission of these courageous individuals, Kim now shares their stories and recounts his dramatic experiences leading North Koreans to asylum through the six-thousand-mile modern-day underground railway through Asia. His unflinching narrative exposes the truth about North Korea, stripping away the last veils that still shroud this brutal dictatorship.

My Holiday in North Korea

Wendy E. Simmons

Author : Wendy E. Simmons
Publisher : Rosetta Books
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-03
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780795347221

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My Holiday in North Korea by Wendy E. Simmons Pdf

“You remember Eat, Pray, Love and Under the Tuscan Sun? Yeah, this really isn’t like those. It’s better” (San Francisco Chronicle). Most people want out of North Korea. Wendy Simmons wanted in. In My Holiday in North Korea: The Funniest/Worst Place on Earth, Wendy shares a glimpse of North Korea as it’s never been seen before. Even though it’s the scariest place on Earth, somehow Wendy forgot to check her sense of humor at the border. But Wendy’s initial amusement and bewilderment soon turned to frustration and growing paranoia. Before long, she learned the essential conundrum of “tourism” in North Korea: Travel is truly a love affair. But, just like love, it’s a two-way street. And North Korea deprives you of all this. They want you to fall in love with the singular vision of the country they’re willing to show you and nothing more. Through poignant, laugh-out-loud essays and ninety-two never-before-published color photographs of North Korea, Wendy chronicles one of the strangest vacations ever. Along the way, she bares all while undergoing an inner journey as convoluted as the country itself. “Much of the humor and poignancy comes from the absurdity of a fun-loving free spirit taking a vacation that’s more rigidly scripted and controlled than a presidential motorcade . . . Simmons’ photos—including an eerie image of a classroom full of schoolgirls playing accordions—further illustrate the bizarre nature of a country that, whether for good or bad, has been carefully controlled for generations.” —San Francisco Chronicle “An irresistible read . . . A rare and fascinating look at the tourist’s North Korea in a work that is humorous, appalling, and very sad. A highly recommended and revealing glimpse into a secretive land.” —Library Journal

Escape To Korea

Escaping North Korea by Mike Kim Pdf

A Thousand Miles to Freedom by Eunsun Kim,Sébastien Falletti Pdf

Escape from North Korea by Melanie Kirkpatrick Pdf

Escape from Camp 14 by Blaine Harden Pdf

Every Falling Star by Sungju Lee,Susan Elizabeth McClelland Pdf

My Freedom Trip by Frances Park,Ginger Park Pdf

Dear Leader by Jang Jin-sung Pdf

A River in Darkness by Masaji Ishikawa Pdf

Escape to Korea by James DeVries Pdf

In Order to Live by Yeonmi Park,Maryanne Vollers Pdf

I Escaped North Korea! by Scott Peters,Ellie Crowe Pdf

How I Became a North Korean by Krys Lee Pdf

The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector’s Story by Hyeonseo Lee Pdf

Escaping North Korea by Mike Kim Pdf

My Holiday in North Korea by Wendy E. Simmons Pdf

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