Another memoir of a child’s life in a North Korean gulag. The difference between this author, Kang Chol-Hwan, and the author of Escape From Camp 14, Kim Dong-Shuk, is that Kang was born into a faithful Party family that voluntarily moved to North Korea and was sent to the camps with his family when he was 9. His perspective on it, knowing the “outside,” did not make the experience of the camp less horrific — it just added a layer of anger to his narrative — and also, sadly, humanity.
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