Yeonmi Park’s refugee memoir In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl’s Journey to Freedom is Radio 4’s book of the week this week, airing at 9:45am. If you missed this morning’s episode there’s a repeat at 12:30 tonight, or of course you can listen to it for the next 30 days on the Radio … [Read More]
Tag: North Korean memoirs
Selected publications
- Thae Yong-Ho: Passcode to the Third Floor: An Insider’s Account of Life Among North Korea’s Political Elite tr Robert Lauler, Columbia University Press 2024
- Heidi Tucker: A Necessary Lie: Escape for Freedom and Love, Heidi Tucker 2023
- Jang Young-jin: A Mark of Red Honor tr John Cha, Seoul Selection 2022
- Jihyun Park, Seh-Lynn Chai: The Hard Road Out: Escaping North Korea tr Sarah Baldwin-Beneich, HarperNorth 2022
- Han Won-chae: My Father’s North Korea Story: Walk to Freedom tr Han Bong-hee, Independently published 2022
- Casey Lartigue Jr, Han Songmi: Greenlight to Freedom: A North Korean Daughter’s Search for Her Mother and Herself, Independently published 2022
- Minju Kim: The Woman From The North: Between Life and Death in North Korea, Independently published 2021
- Cho Seog Whan: When May Comes: A story of a Refugee from North Korea and his Critical Reflections on Japanese Imperialism, North Korean Communist Rule, South Korean Democracy, and the Multiracial American Society, Independently published 2021
- Masaji Ishikawa: A River in Darkness: One Man’s Escape from North Korea tr Martin Brown, Risa Kobayashi, Amazon Crossing 2018
- Sungju Lee, Susan McClelland: Every Falling Star: The True Story of How I Survived and Escaped North Korea, Amulet 2016
- Yeonmi Park: In Order To Live: A North Korean Girl’s Journey to Freedom, Penguin 2016
- Lucia Jang, Susan McClelland: Stars Between the Sun and Moon: One Woman’s Life in North Korea and Escape to Freedom, WW Norton 2015
- Eunsun Kim, Sébastien Falletti: A Thousand Miles to Freedom: My Escape From North Korea tr David Tian, St Martin's Griffin 2015
- David John, Hyeonseo Lee: The Girl with Seven Names: Escape from North Korea, Harper Collins 2015
- Joseph Kim, Stephan Talty: Under the Same Sky: From Starvation in North Korea to Salvation in America, Mariner 2015
- Jang Jin-sung: Dear Leader tr Shirley Lee, Penguin 2014
- Blaine Harden, Shin Dong-hyuk: Escape from Camp 14: One man’s remarkable odyssey from North Korea to freedom in the West, Pan Macmillan 2012
- Peter Oh: The People’s Paradise: True Stories from North Korea, the People’s Paradise on Earth, BookBaby 2010
- Kim Yong, Suk-young Kim: Long Road Home: Testimony of a North Korean Camp Survivor, Columbia University Press 2009
- Kang Hyok, Philippe Grangereau: This is Paradise! My North Korean Childhood tr Shaun Whiteside, Abacus 2007
- Kang Chol-Hwan, Pierre Rigoulot: The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag tr Yair Reiner, Atlantic 2006
Yeonmi Park’s DPRK refugee memoir out next week
Yeonmi Park’s defector memoir In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl’s Journey to Freedom comes out in a couple of days. It is trailed in this weekend’s Telegraph and her testimony has also been examined in The Diplomat. Italian and German editions will be coming out later this year. According to Aidan Foster Carter, … [Read More]
Shin Dong-hyuk: “passionate human rights campaigner and an ordinary young man”
Youngeun Koo reports from the first of EAHRNK’s “North Korean Memoirs” events. On Tuesday 16 September, the UK had the rare opportunity to meet Shin Dong-hyuk in person. Shin is so far the only person known to have successfully escaped from Camp 14, a ‘total control camp’ in North Korea. Organised by European Alliance for … [Read More]
“Jazz” in the DPRK: Autumn Whispers and the forbidden fruit of Richard Clayderman
I’ve just finished reading Jang Jin-sung’s memoir, Dear Leader. It’s a real page-turner that will appeal to many types of readers, including people who like a good adventure story (the passages describing Jang’s evasion of Chinese and North Korean security forces once he has fled from the North Korean capital are genuinely exciting) and of … [Read More]
Author of Escape from Camp 14 interviewed in the Standard
Interview with North Korean escapee Shin Dong-hyuk in the Evening Standard today. Shame they can’t spell his name right. http://bit.ly/IQgTFA. “When I saw the outside world for the first time, I thought it was paradise.” [Read More]