title: Long Road Home: Testimony of a North Korean Camp Survivor
author:  Yong Kim 
description: Kim gives us a marvelously unsympathetic portrait of a brain-washed apparatchik. (Christian Oliver <i>Financial Times</i>)<br /><br />[Kim's] dispassionate account of how one man endured the unendurable offers a clue as to how such extreme inhumanity can occur. (Donald Richie <i>Japan Times</i>)<br /><br />A reminder of the brutality of the North Korean regime. (John Feffer <i>Korean Quarterly</i>)
zlib_text: Long Road Home
  
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  > Columbia University Press is grateful to the Committee for Human Rights in
  > North Korea for permission to use satellite images produced by DigitalGlobe
  > and Space Imaging Asia and printed in the Committee’s 2003 report by David
  > Hawk, “Hidden Gulag: Exposing North Korea’s Prison Camps.”
  
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  > E-ISBN 978-0-231-51928-1
  
  > Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Kim, Yong, 1950-.
  
  > Long road home : testimony of a North Korean camp survivor / Kim Yong with
  > Kim Suk-Young.
  
  > p. cm.
  
  > Includes bibliographical references.
  
  > ISBN 978-0-231-14746-0 (cloth : alk. paper)
  
  > I. Kim, Yong, 1950- 2. Political prisoners—Korea (North)—Biography. 3.
  > Concentration camps—Korea (North) 4. Forced labor—Korea (North) 5. Korea
  > (North)—So