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Long Road Home
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Long Road Home
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Narrated by:
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Adam Sims
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Written by:
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Kim Yong
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Suk-Young Kim
Kim Yong shares his harrowing account of life in a labor camp—a singularly despairing form of torture carried out by the secret state. Although it is known that gulags exist in North Korea, little information is available about their organization and conduct, for prisoners rarely escape both incarceration and the country alive. Long Road Home shares the remarkable story of one such survivor, a former military official who spent six years in a gulag and experienced firsthand the brutality of an unconscionable regime.
As a lieutenant colonel in the North Korean army, Kim Yong enjoyed unprecedented privilege in a society that closely monitored its citizens. He owned an imported car and drove it freely throughout the country. He also encountered corruption at all levels, whether among party officials or Japanese trade partners, and took note of the illicit benefits that were awarded to some and cruelly denied to others.
Copyright © 2009 Columbia University Press. Published by arrangement with Columbia University Press.
©2009 Kim Yong, Suk-Young Kim (P)2026 Lind & Co