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Kang Chol-Hwan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Kang Chol-Hwan (강촐환) is a defector from North Korea. Kang Chol-hwan meets with US President George W. Bush. "Child Prisoner: Kang Chol-hwan", MSN.com article, October 28, 2003. www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kang_Chol-Hwan   (443 words)

BookkooB : The Aquariums of Pyongyang - Kang Chol-Hwan, Pierre Rigoulot : Compare Book Prices Kang Chol-Hwan's account traces the Korean War to the 1990's, however most of the action takes place during the author's own life, particularly the 80's/90's. Kang notes that the struggle to survive the harsh conditions strips the camp's inmates of their humanity and dignity rendering them little better than animals. Throughout Kang's ten year stay at the camp there is never enough food or clothing, adult and child inmates are beaten, brutalised and forced to watch public executions. www.bookkoob.co.uk /book/1903985056.htm   (1331 words)

Asia Times Online :: Korea News and Korean Business and Economy, Pyongyang News On June 13, the doors of the White House Oval Office opened to admit a 37-year-old named Kang Chol-hwan, a refugee from North Korea and perhaps the first person from the isolationist state to meet the US president. Kang was born into a well-to-do "Korean-in-Japan" family in Kyoto headed by his grandmother, a committed communist, and grandfather, a successful capitalist with some gangster connections who had grown rich in postwar Japan on running something described as a gambling saloon, presumably a pachinko parlor, opposite the main railway station. Kang's co-author, Frenchman Pierre Rigoulet, had been a contributing editor to the Black Book of Communism (first published in France in 1997), and it was perhaps his contribution to tailor Kang's story so North Korea is presented as one more example of the atrocity of communism, a monstrous perversion. www.atimes.com /atimes/Korea/GG26Dg03.html   (2260 words)

Handley Review of 'Hell on Earth: Life in Kim Il-Sung's Gulag' Kang's predominant theme of man's inhumanity to man is linked to the disillusionment and redemption of the true believer, who is his communist activist grandmother. After reuniting with his family, Kang attended the university for a year and drove a delivery truck for another four years, until he discovered that he was about to re-arrested and sent back to the gulag for listening to South Korean radio, an act of sedition in the north. According to Kang, things went well until the authorities forced his grandfather to relinquish his Volvo to the state, and his grandmother became increasingly irrelevant in the broader political scheme of things, but they still lived rather comfortably in an apartment complex in Pyongyang. www.unc.edu /depts/diplomat/archives_roll/2002_10-12/book_handley/book_handley.html   (1130 words)

U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea KANG Chol Hwan was born in Pyongyang in 1968. According to Kang Chol Hwan, labor operations at the Knup-ri section of Yodok included a gypsum quarry and a re-opened gold mine (which was originally opened during the Japanese occupation of Korea), where some 800 men worked in groups of five. While Kang’s was a family village, sexual contact between men and women was not allowed, as it was thought this could result in another generation of counter-revolution- aries. www.hrnk.org /hiddengulag/part1.html   (15066 words)

N. Korea defector seeks help from Bush - Nation/Politics - The Washington Times, America's Newspaper "The people who are at the camps, the [North Korean] government wants to kill them all," Kang Chol-hwan said in an interview with The Washington Times. Kang said that when he crossed in 1992, it was easier than it was today, when triple fences and more guards have been deployed to block the defections. Kang, 37, said prisoners are fed very small portions of corn and salt that make it "impossible to survive" without additional food. www.washtimes.com /national/20050718-115345-3961r.htm   (459 words)

Conservative Book Club: The Aquariums of Pyongyang by Kang Chol-hwan Kang in his escape to the free world is amazing; especially in light of the fact that a failed escape attempt is almost certainly a death sentence in Kim's North Korea. Kang risked everything to escape to the West and tell this story - we owe it to him and the millions who didn't make it out to read this account and contemplate what is going on in North Korea this very second. Kang's last aquarium made it onto the truck transporting him and his family to the prison camp at Yodok, about 70 miles northwest of Pyongyang. www.conservativebookclub.com /products/BookPage.asp?prod_cd=c6813   (1290 words)

The Korea Times : FM Urges NK to Comply With Roh-Bush Message Kang has become famous for his memoir, ``The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in a North Korean Gulag,’’ which recounts his suffering at the hands of the North Korean regime. Ban, asked by a reporter about the implications of the latest news on Bush’s meeting with Kang, said he believes it would not have a negative effect on the ongoing efforts to resume the six-party talks, which have been stalled for about a year. On the historic day when the two Koreas celebrate their achievements of the past five years, Chosun Ilbo, one of the major conservative dailies in South Korea, delivered several articles on a meeting between U.S. President George W. Bush and its reporter, who came from the North. times.hankooki.com /lpage/nation/200506/kt2005061519132511980.htm   (580 words)

Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag Kang Chol-hwan even admits that in the 1960s he was doing rather well materially and had reason to believe that it was even better in northern Korea than in southern Korea--conditions-wise for the people. Kang Chol-hwan said this despite the fact that it was illegal by Amerikan and southern Korean laws for Amerikans and southern Koreans to go to northern Korea. Kang Chol-hwan's grandmother came to see the regime as similar to Hitler's (9) but if so, it would be the class struggle by people like Kang Chol-hwan which made it so. www.etext.org /Politics/MIM/countries/korea/aquariumskorea.html   (2179 words)

TIME Asia Magazine: Gulag Diplomacy -- Jun. 27, 2005 Kang, now a 36-year-old journalist and human-rights activist in Seoul, was incarcerated at age 9 after his wealthy grandfather ran afoul of the regime; in 1977 the family was thrown into Yodok, an isolated work camp for political prisoners, and Kang spent the next 10 years there. When a sister of one of Kang's close friends died of starvation in winter, she couldn't be buried deep because the ground was frozen. Bush was given a copy of Kang's memoir by Henry Kissinger, and according to White House aides, he was so moved by it that he has since pushed several of his senior foreign-policy advisers to read it. www.time.com /time/asia/magazine/article/0,13673,501050627-1074168,00.html   (519 words)

Amazon.com: The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag: Books: Kang Chol-Hwan,Pierre Rigoulot,Chor-Hwan Kang,Yair Reiner Kang Chol-hwan was nine years old when imprisoned at the Yodok camp in 1977. Kang chol-Hawn was an upper middle class child of idealistic Koreans living in Japan when his parents returned to the North Korean "Workers Paradise" that was in the making of North Korea of the early 1960's. By the age of nine Kang was sent to a gulag and in it he endured all that one would expext from a communist gulag, beatings, starvation, hard labor, communist propaganda and brain washing. www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0465011020?v=glance   (2136 words)

Kang - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Ye-Na Kang – Ballerina in the Universal ballet company, South Korea. Kang – Kirkland High school's mascot, short for kangaroos. This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title. www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kang   (101 words)

Alone In The Dark Kang was incensed that the South had softened its rhetoric about Pyongyang at the peak of the North Korean famine, when the North was at its most vulnerable and could not have survived without support. Kang has written a memoir of his captivity, "The Aquariums of Pyongyang," and he still isn't sure why they were sent there or why, after ten years, they were released. Kang, who now works as a newspaper reporter in the South, regarded both the fanfare of the sunshine policy and the caution of Roh Moo Hyun's peace-and-prosperity approach to the North as hopelessly naive, and as something worse than appeasement, more like capitulation. www2.gol.com /users/coynerhm/alone_in_the_dark.htm   (11348 words)

RFA: North Korean Defector Wants Bush To Pressure China North Korean defector and journalist Kang Chol Hwan North Korean author Kang Chol Hwan and U.S. President George Bush Kang was arrested in 1977 at the age of 10 and sent with his family to the Yodok prison camp, where he was forced to eat rats, cockroaches, and snakes to survive. www.rfa.org /english/news/politics/2005/06/15/nkorea_kang   (685 words)

N. Korea Defector Presses Human Rights (phillyBurbs.com) Asia Kang is author of "The Aquariums of Pyongyang," named for his hobby of tending fish before he was sent to prison along with his family at age 9. Kang said he witnessed at least 10 such executions at the camp, but speculated there were more in other parts of the sprawling mountain prison. Kang also criticized South Korea for giving aid to the impoverished North without demanding progress on humanitarian issues in return, and said lax monitoring means much of the aid ends up with the military. www.phillyburbs.com /pb-dyn/news/90-06282005-508279.html   (897 words)

ABC News: 'Typhoon' Tells Story of N.Korean Defector "I think it's the first movie that accurately depicts the reality of North Korea," said Kang Chol Hwan, who met President Bush last year to discuss his memoir of growing up in a prison camp. At a recent press screening for the movie, Kang talked about a North Korean woman who was sold to work on a Chinese shipping boat, where she was constantly raped by seven ethnic Korean crew. The reality for North Koreans trying to flee the totalitarian regime is "far more tragic and tearful," said Kang, who was sent to a North Korean prison along with his family at age 9 because his grandfather was accused of anti-government activity. abcnews.go.com /Entertainment/wireStory?id=1551632&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312   (429 words)

What's New In Multicultural Books Kang Chol-hwan was arrested at the age of nine with his sister, father, uncle and grandmother for a "crime of high treason", after his grandfather, a high-level government bureaucrat, mysteriously disappeared. Kang Chol-hwan's beloved—but doomed—aquarium is a microcosm of his boyhood in a North Korean prison camp: a world of constant surveillance, isolation, and death." In the AQUARIUMS OF PYONGYANG, Kang Chol-hwan provides the first personal documentary account of life in one of these camps; he is the first survivor and escapee to openly reveal his experiences in one of these brutal Communist labor camps. www.urbanmozaik.com /2002.january/jan02_books.html   (915 words)

The Aquariums of Pyongyang by Kang Chol-Hwan, Pierre Rigoulot, Yair Reiner Kang Chol-Hwan lives and works in Seoul, where he is a staff writer for Chosun Ilbo, a daily newspaper in South Korea. The Aquariums of Pyongyang by Kang Chol-Hwan, Pierre Rigoulot, Yair Reiner The Aquariums of Pyongyang by Kang Chol-Hwan, Pierre Rigoulot, Yair Reiner may be a source of good information for you. dietbooks.org /NorthKorea/Aquariums_of_Pyongyang.html   (413 words)

onefreekorea: The North Korean Reaction to Kang Chol-Hwan's White House Visit Why Kang Chol Hwan, Ronald Reagan, and Machiavelli Are Right, and John Lennon Wasn't My students couldn't hide their glee and admiration for Bush after meeting Kang Chol-hwan. The North Korean Reaction to Kang Chol-Hwan's White House Visit freekorea.blogspot.com /2005/06/north-korean-reaction-to-kang-chol.html   (1218 words)

Dan Bielefeld's Photo Site The Aquariums of Pyongyang - the autobiography of Kang Chol-Hwan, www.danbielefeld.com   (644 words)

USATODAY.com - N. Korea rebuffs date for nuclear talks Bush met last week with Kang Chol Hwan, author of The Aquariums of Pyongyang, a memoir detailing a decade of abuses at a North Korean prison camp. But the North's propaganda machine launched another tirade Thursday at the United States, criticizing Bush for hosting Kang Chol Hwan, a North Korean defector working as a journalist in South Korea. The North's Korean Central News Agency said the meeting was "an act of throwing a wet blanket on the efforts to resume" the nuclear talks. www.usatoday.com /news/world/2005-06-24-nkorea_x.htm   (752 words)

Important Topics: North Korea Freedom Coalition Kang Chol-Hwan, North Korean defector and human-rights activist People like me who are able to eat anything can survive longer. www.nkfreedom.org /important_nk_topics.html   (997 words)

ABS-CBN Interactive But there are many more stories that are more tragic and tearing," said Kang Chol-hwan at a recent promotional screening of the movie. Kang is the author of "The Aquariums of Pyongyang," a harrowing account of his 10 years in a North Korean prison. The next step will be selling North Korean defectors as entertainment to overseas audiences. www.abs-cbnnews.com /storypage.aspx?StoryId=28074   (1279 words)

Kang Chol Hwan - Reviewscout.co.uk Meredith Sue Stitt Kuo Kang Chen Kuo Kang Chen Kate Needham Annabel Spenceley Kuo Kang Chen Kuo Kang Chen Needham, Kate(for) Spenceley, Annabel(ill) Chen, Kuo Kang(ill) Kuo Kang Chen(ill) www.reviewscout.co.uk /Kang-Chol-Hwan/2   (109 words)

USATODAY.com - Rights meeting spotlights N. Korea abuses at key diplomacy time However, Bush met last month with Kang Chol Hwan, a North Korean defector and author of The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag. Kang, who argues that Kim's regime is close to collapse, is due to speak at the conference. Others invited to speak include Richard Cizik, vice president of the National Association of Evangelicals, Richard Land, president of the Southern Baptist Convention's ethics and religious liberty commission, and Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan. www.usatoday.com /news/world/2005-07-15-korea-rights_x.htm   (852 words)

Bush meets with NK gulag survivor / author MetaFilter Today, Bush met with Kang Chol Hwan, a survivor of the North Korean prison camps and author of The Aquariums of Pyongyang, a book Bush has read and given to his staffers. I usually can't stand Bush but, once in a while, he does something admirable and Kang Chol Hwan's account of his conversation with Bush was really quite impressive. Maybe I'm just a sucker for propaganda, but if Bush can really do something about the situation, especially about the forced repatriation of the NK refugees by China, then I'll take back at least a third of things I said about him. www.metafilter.com /mefi/42767   (1302 words)

From the Yalu to the Nakdong: October 9 reception with Kang Chol-hwan On October 9 we and Democrats Abroad-Korea are co-sponsoring a reception with Kang Chol-hwan: The Korean chapters of Republicans Abroad and Democrats Abroad proudly sponsor a non-partisan reception and presentation with Kang Chol-hwan former North Korean political prisoner and author of The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag. If you haven't heard of him, Kang is the defector who met with President Bush last June. marmot.blogs.com /korea/2005/10/october_9_recep.html   (654 words)

Child prisoner: Kang Chol Hwan - January 2003: Crisis in the Koreas - MSNBC.com 15, 2003 - Kang Chol Hwan is a former child prisoner at Yeoduk Prison in North Korea. Child prisoner: Kang Chol Hwan - January 2003: Crisis in the Koreas - MSNBC.com Among the Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il instructions, I heard of it from Ahn Myong Chol that political prisoners should have three generations eradicated. msnbc.msn.com /id/3071467   (1504 words)

Digital Chosunilbo (English Edition) : Daily News in English About Korea Chosun Ilbo reporter Kang Chol-hwan, a North Korean defector who met with Bush in June, recounted his experiences in the prison camps before some 50,000 people who attended the event. Chosun Ilbo journalist Kang Chol-hwan (right) speaks about human rights in North Korea at the "Rock the Desert" Christian music event in Midland, Texas. The "North Korea Genocide Exhibit" showed drawings depicting life in North Korea's prison camps and a DVD of scenes of public executions in the Stalinist country. english.chosun.com /w21data/html/news/200508/200508100021.html   (530 words)

Digital Chosunilbo (English Edition) : Daily News in English About Korea U.S. President George W. Bush¡¯s active interest in North Korean human rights was given its most prominent expression yet when he met at the White House with North Korean defector and Chosun Ilbo journalist Kang Chol-hwan on Monday to discuss the realities of North Korea's prison camps. But there clearly is a signal here and a symbol that human rights is central to our approach, that there is a kind of moral concern." The New York Times, meanwhile, said the White House advertised Bush¡¯s meeting with Kang to show the importance it places on human rights in North Korea. Washington¡¯s special envoy for North Korea Joseph DeTrani said once North Korea eliminates its nuclear program it could receive security guarantees, but "we are not prepared to have a fully normalized relationship in the absence of movement on these other issues," meaning North Korea's oppression of those critical of the regime. english.chosun.com /w21data/html/news/200506/200506150028.html   (360 words)

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