North Korean literature
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Reading is a popular pastime in North Korea, where literacy and books enjoy a high cultural standing, elevated by the regime's efforts to disseminate propaganda as texts. Because of this, writers are
Books on display at the Grand People's Study House in Pyongyang
The Aquariums of Pyongyang
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The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag, by Kang Chol-hwan and Pierre Rigoulot, is an account of the imprisonment of Kang Chol-Hwan and his family in the Yodok concentration ca
North Korean literature
…English. Some autobiographies written by North Korean exiles published since 2000 contain grim accounts of life in North Korea, such as Kang Chol-hwan's The Aquariums of Pyongyang (2000) and Hyok Kang's This Is Paradise! (2005). These "escape-from-North-Korea" narratives have sold well in democratic countries as a foil for the…
Aquariums of Pyongyangs book cover