Long Road Home: Testimony of a North Korean Camp Survivor

Kim Yong; with Kim Suk-Young

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June, 2009
Cloth, 184 pages, 4 illus.; two maps
ISBN: 978-0-231-14746-0
$30.50 / £21.00

"Kim gives us a marvellously unsympathetic portrait of a brain-washed apparatchik." — Christian Oliver, Financial Times

"[Kim's] dispassionate account of how one man endured the unendurable offers a clue as to how such extreme inhumanity can occur." — Donald Richie, Japan Times

"A reminder of the brutality of the North Korean regime." — John Feffer, Korean Quarterly

"A fascinating and extremely rare memoir of growing up in a comfortable existence in North Korea, only to be thrown into one of the worst prison camps in that country—and then escape to write about it all." — Bruce Cumings, Gustavus F. and Ann M. Swift Distinguished Service Professor in History and the College, University of Chicago

Related Subjects

• Asian History

About the Author

Kim Yong was a lieutenant colonel in the North Korean National Security Agency and a career military officer earning foreign currency until he was suddenly sent to a labor camp in 1993. After six years he escaped through China to South Korea and then, in 2003, came to the United States.Kim Suk-Young is assistant professor of theater and East Asian studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara. She is the author of the forthcoming book Illusive Utopia: Theater, Film, and Everyday Performance in North Korea.

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