Long Road Home: Testimony of a North Korean Camp Survivor
Kim Yong; with Kim Suk-Young
June, 2009
Cloth, 184 pages, 4 illus.; two maps
ISBN: 978-0-231-14746-0
$30.50
/ £21.00
Preface
Introduction
Translator’s Note
1. Coming of Age
2. Living for the Great Leader
3. Downfall of a Model Citizen
4. In the Mouth of Death
5. Escape
6. Across the Continent
Afterword: Unfinished Story
Notes
Related Subjects
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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