![]() Kang Chol-hwan was nine years old when imprisoned at the Yodok camp in 1977. Instead, the family was removed without trial to a remote concentration camp, apparently because the grandfather was suspected of counter-revolutionary tendencies. They were fired with idealism and committed to building an edenic nation. ![]() After the division of North and South Korea, Kang's family returned to North Korea from Japan, where his grandparents had emigrated in the 1930s and where his grandfather had amassed a fortune and his grandmother became a committed Communist. Kang Chol-hwan draws from firsthand experience in explaining the repression. North Korea is among the most opaque nations on earth, its regime noted for repression and for the personality cult of its father and son leaders, the late Kim Il Sung and his successor, Kim Jong Il. ![]()
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