title: Tears of Blood: A Korean POW's Fight for Freedom, Family, and Justice
author:  Young-Bok Yoo 
description: "In this excellent, clear and highly readable translation we learn the moving story of Young-Bok Yoo, whose life exemplifies the tragedies and divisions of Korea during and after the Korean War."
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  Copyright © 2019 by John Altman  
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  For Danny
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  > Only after having acknowledged sins and reflected deeply upon them can a
  > prisoner begin anew.
  
  > > —Ninth law of the kwan-li-so,  
  > North Korean prison camp system
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## PROLOGUE
  
  
  TUMEN RIVER,  
  DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF KOREA
  
  
  The river was a smooth black mirror. She gathered her courage and stepped o