A review by kinosthesia
Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag by Kang Chol-Hwan, Pierre Rigoulot

4.0

That this is happening in this day and age is shocking enough without the added angle that its being ignored for the most part by the est of the world. I don't think any account of what is gone through in the camps can impress exactly how hard life is North of the DMZ, but this book, with its back history of journeys from Japan and some of the history of those who came to to the North in Idealism, comes pretty close. Everyone should read this account, any account in fact as these are the accounts of the few that have escaped and a reminder of the thousands left behind.