The aquariums of Pyongyang - Ch'or-hwan Kang

'I beseech you to read this account' - Christopher HitchensA magnificent, harrowing testimony to the voiceless victims of North Korea.Kang Chol-Hwan is the first survivor of a North Korean concentration
camp to escape the 'hermit kingdom' and tell his story to the world.
This memoir reveals the human suffering in his camp, with its forced
labour, frequent public executions and near-starvation rations. Kang
eventually escaped to South Korea via China to give testimony to the
hardships and atrocities that constitute the lives of the thousands of
people still detained in the gulags today. Part horror story, part
historical document, part memoir, part political tract, this story of
one young man's personal suffering finally gives eye-witness proof to
this neglected chapter of modern history.