This is Paradise!
Author: Hyok Kang
Publisher: Little Brown Uk
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9780349118659
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe author describes everyday life in North Korea and his migration to China to seek asylum.
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This is Paradise!
Author: Hyŏk Kang
Publisher:
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA glimpse of North Korea under the leadership of Kim Jong-il. Told through the eyes of Hyok Kang who tells of his schooldays in a rigidly communist instution, the everyday life of his family and community, and his escape from the country at age thirteen.
In Order to Live
Author: Yeonmi Park
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2016-09-27
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 014310974X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“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.
My Korean Childhood
Author: Kathleen Yaekyoung Cheh, Ph.d.
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2016-08-31
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9781537719108
DOWNLOAD EBOOKYaekyung was a Korean student at a university in a large American city. She had come to the United States only a few years before. During the spring vacation of 1957, Yaekyung was invited to the home of an American couple, Dr. and Mrs. George Taylor who is lived in a suburb. They were professionals in the field of education. Dr. Taylor was a principal the local high school, while Mrs. Taylor taught elementary grades. The Taylors were very much interested in international understanding. Mrs. Taylor was the chairman of the local international women's association. While Yaekyung was staying with the Taylors for three days, she told many stories of Korean life. Mrs. Taylor, who raised three children, was eager to learn about other peoples. She asked Yaekyung many questions about Korea. The colorful flowers in the garden, the joyfully dancing butterflies over the flowers, the mysterious spring haze, and the sweet pungent air of the country home environment all stimulated Yaekyung to recall the nostalgic story of her past life in a land that was now cut off from the rest of the world. The following is Yaekyung's childhood story of growing up in her homeland, North Korea, before it was divided after the Second World War.
Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader
Author: Bradley K. Martin
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2007-04-01
Total Pages: 880
ISBN-13: 9781429906999
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUnder the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader offers in-depth portraits of North Korea's two ruthless and bizarrely Orwellian leaders, Kim Il-Sung and Kim Jong-Il. Lifting North Korea's curtain of self-imposed isolation, this book will take readers inside a society, that to a Westerner, will appear to be from another planet. Subsisting on a diet short on food grains and long on lies, North Koreans have been indoctrinated from birth to follow unquestioningly a father-son team of megalomaniacs. To North Koreans, the Kims are more than just leaders. Kim Il-Sung is the country's leading novelist, philosopher, historian, educator, designer, literary critic, architect, general, farmer, and ping-pong trainer. Radios are made so they can only be tuned to the official state frequency. "Newspapers" are filled with endless columns of Kim speeches and propaganda. And instead of Christmas, North Koreans celebrate Kim's birthday--and he presents each child a present, just like Santa. The regime that the Kim Dynasty has built remains technically at war with the United States nearly a half century after the armistice that halted actual fighting in the Korean War. This fascinating and complete history takes full advantage of a great deal of source material that has only recently become available (some from archives in Moscow and Beijing), and brings the reader up to the tensions of the current day. For as this book will explain, North Korea appears more and more to be the greatest threat among the Axis of Evil countries--with some defector testimony warning that Kim Jong-Il has enough chemical weapons to wipe out the entire population of South Korea.
Across the Tumen
Author: Moon Young-sook
Publisher: Seoul Selection
Published: 2014-01-01
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 1624120229
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs North Korea undergoes a devastating famine, Yeong-dae loses both his parents and is forced to beg on the streets. Soon, this young boy sets off on a desperate journey to China to find his sister—his last living family member. Captured by the authorities, he is sent back to the North, where he is thrown in jail and tortured. Once he is finally released, he crosses the Tumen River again, more determined than ever to find a place where he can live a decent life. This inspiring tale offers a glimpse into the horrors faced by North Korean children—and their indomitable will to survive.
My Freedom Trip
Author: Frances Park
Publisher:
Published: 2009-01-22
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9781436191005
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Kim Jong Il's North Korea, 2nd Edition
Author: Alison Behnke
Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books
Published: 2012-08-01
Total Pages: 154
ISBN-13: 1467703559
DOWNLOAD EBOOKKim Jong Il, one of the world's most infamous dictators, rose to power in the mid-1990s in the small East Asian country of North Korea. He succeeded his father, Kim Il Sung, as that nation's leader. Kim Il Sung took power in North Korea—also known as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, or DPRK—in 1948, and eventually established a state governed by his own version of Communism. Today Kim Jong Il continues his father’s tactics of building a powerful cult of personality around himself, while crushing criticism and opposition to his rule. These practices by both Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il have largely cut off the DPRK from the outside world. The Kim leaders' harsh policies have led to tragedy within the nation, contributing to devastating famine and creating a network of labor camps in which many North Koreans are tortured and killed annually. Kim's secrecy and his strict control of information entering or leaving North Korea have also made the nation a largely mysterious place. In Kim Jong Il's North Korea, learn more about this inscrutable nation and its dictator.
A River in Darkness
Author: Masaji Ishikawa
Publisher: Amazon Crossing
Published: 2018-06
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781542047197
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPreviously published in Japan in 2000. Translated from Japanese by Risa Kobayashi and Martin Brown. First published in English by AmazonCrossing in 2017.
The Real North Korea
Author: Andrei Lankov
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13: 0199390037
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn The Real North Korea, Lankov substitutes cold, clear analysis for the overheated rhetoric surrounding this opaque police state. Based on vast expertise, this book reveals how average North Koreans live, how their leaders rule, and how both survive
