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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs Concentration camps Korea (North) Forced labor Korea (North) HISTORY / Asia / Korea Korea (North) Politics and government Korea (North) Politics and government 1994-2011 Korea (North) Social conditions Political persecution Korea (North) Political prisoners Korea (North) Biography Shin, Dong-hyukKim, Eunsun
Summary: "Eunsun Kim was born in North Korea, one of the most secretive and oppressive countries in the modern world. As a child Eunsun loved her country--despite her school field trips to public executions, daily self-criticism sessions, and the increasing gnaw of hunger as the country-wide famine escalated ... Her mother decided to escape North Korea with Eunsun and her sister, not knowing that they...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Audio 2015
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 921 KIM, EUNSUN KimKim, Eunsun
Summary: "Eunsun Kim was born in North Korea, one of the most secretive and oppressive countries in the modern world. As a child Eunsun loved her country--despite her school field trips to public executions, daily self-criticism sessions, and the increasing gnaw of hunger as the country-wide famine escalated ... Her mother decided to escape North Korea with Eunsun and her sister, not knowing that they...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KIM, EUNSUN KIMJeppesen, Travis
Summary: "In See You Again in Pyongyang, Travis Jeppesen, the first American to complete a university program in North Korea, culls from his experiences living, traveling, and studying in the country to create a multifaceted portrait of the country and its idiosyncratic capital city in the Kim Jong Un Era. Anchored by the experience of his five trips to North Korea and his interactions with citizens...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 951.93 JEPSummary: Following a strict routine, which involved several hours of daily workouts and gymnastic instruction, two young girls practice through exhaustion for the 2003 Mass Games, the world's largest choreographed performance. This spectacle, which takes place twice a day for 20 days, is a mass celebration of nationalism, athleticism and ideological unity.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino on Video 2006
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC STAKang, Chol-hwan
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 951.93 KANG, CHOL-HWAN KANHarden, Blaine.
Summary: Twenty-six years ago, Shin Dong-hyuk was born inside Camp 14, one of five sprawling political prisons in the mountains of North Korea. This is the gripping, terrifying story of his escape from this no-exit prison-- to freedom in South Korea.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 365 HARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B SHIN HARHarden, Blaine.
Summary: Twenty-six years ago, Shin Dong-hyuk was born inside Camp 14, one of five sprawling political prisons in the mountains of North Korea. This is the gripping, terrifying story of his escape from this no-exit prison to freedom in South Korea.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2012
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 365.45 HARPark, Yeonmi.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 PARK YEONMI PARIshikawa, Masaji
Summary: Half-Korean, half-Japanese, Masaji Ishikawa has spent his whole life feeling like a man without a country. This feeling only deepened when his family moved from Japan to North Korea when Ishikawa was just thirteen years old, and unwittingly became members of the lowest social caste. His father, himself a Korean national, was lured to the new Communist country by promises of abundant work,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: AmazonCrossing 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ISHIKAWA, MASAJI ISHFrench, Paul
Summary: North Korea: State of Paranoia, delivers a provocative and frightening account of a potentially explosive nuclear tripwire.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 951.93 FRECumings, Bruce
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: New Press 2004