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- Unbranded
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- ISBN
- 9781594036330
- Book Title
- Escape from North Korea : the Untold Story of Asia's Underground Railroad
- Item Length
- 9in
- Publisher
- Encounter Books
- Publication Year
- 2012
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.2in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Religion, Social Science, Political Science
- Topic
- Public Policy / Immigration, Christian Ministry / General, Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism, Emigration & Immigration, Religious
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 0 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 376 Pages
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From the world's most repressive state comes rare good news: the escape to freedom of a small number of its people. It is a crime to leave North Korea. Yet increasing numbers of North Koreans dare to flee. They go first to neighboring China, which rejects them as criminals, then on to Southeast Asia or Mongolia, and finally to South Korea, the United States, and other free countries. They travel along a secret route known as the new underground railroad. With a journalist's grasp of events and a novelist's ear for narrative, Melanie Kirkpatrick tells the story of the North Koreans' quest for liberty. Travelers on the new underground railroad include women bound to Chinese men who purchased them as brides, defectors carrying state secrets, and POWs from the Korean War held captive in the North for more than half a century. Their conductors are brokers who are in it for the money as well as Christians who are in it to serve God. The Christians see their mission as the liberation of North Korea one person at a time. Just as escaped slaves from the American South educated Americans about the evils of slavery, the North Korean fugitives are informing the world about the secretive country they fled. Escape from North Korea describes how they also are sowing the seeds for change within North Korea itself. Once they reach sanctuary, the escapees channel news back to those they left behind. In doing so, they are helping to open their information-starved homeland, exposing their countrymen to liberal ideas, and laying the intellectual groundwork for the transformation of the totalitarian regime that keeps their fellow citizens in chains.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Encounter Books
ISBN-10
1594036330
ISBN-13
9781594036330
eBay Product ID (ePID)
113294432
Product Key Features
Book Title
Escape from North Korea : the Untold Story of Asia's Underground Railroad
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Public Policy / Immigration, Christian Ministry / General, Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism, Emigration & Immigration, Religious
Publication Year
2012
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Religion, Social Science, Political Science
Number of Pages
376 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
1.2in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
0 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Hv640.5.K67k63 2012
Reviews
With the perfect, hypnotic flow of a consummate journalist, Melanie Kirkpatrick has created an encyclopedic, magnificently researched and reported portrait of the dramatic resistance to the slow-motion holocaust that is taking place in North Korea as you read this. Her account is as captivating as a thriller, but unlike a thriller it is morally compelling. What elevates it to the ranks of the finest books is the skill of its author and the selfless urgency of her appeal. Many a prize has been awarded to books not half as deserving." — Mark Helprin, Author of Winter's Tale and A Soldier of the Great War Escape from North Korea should be assigned reading for anyone—policymaker, academic, or journalist alike—who think they know anything about the Kim family dictatorship. Melanie Kirkpatrick shows how the new Underground Railroad" is not only providing an escape route from the prison camp that is North Korea, but something even more important as well. She shows how that escape route, aided and expanded, can bring down North Korea's despotic regime and free its entire people. Kirkpatrick combines exhaustive reporting with insightful analysis in a powerful and compelling tale of repression and freedom." — John R. Bolton, Former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations A riveting, meticulously researched account of the harrowing journey North Koreans must take to reach freedom. Kirkpatrick describes in detail the secret network of safe houses, transit routes and brokers that have emerged in China and other countries to enable North Koreans to escape. Similar to the Underground Railroad in the United States that liberated slaves, the network achieves inspiring successes and tragic failures. The book will interest both the general public and serve as a powerful tool for policymakers, academics and advocates interested in lending support to one of the world's most persecuted people." — Roberta Cohen, Co-chair of the Committee for Human Rights in North Korea, "With the perfect, hypnotic flow of a consummate journalist, Melanie Kirkpatrick has created an encyclopedic, magnificently researched and reported portrait of the dramatic resistance to the slow-motion holocaust that is taking place in North Korea as you read this. Her account is as captivating as a thriller, but unlike a thriller it is morally compelling. What elevates it to the ranks of the finest books is the skill of its author and the selfless urgency of her appeal. Many a prize has been awarded to books not half as deserving." -- Mark Helprin, Author of Winter's Tale and A Soldier of the Great War "Escape from North Korea should be assigned reading for anyone--policymaker, academic, or journalist alike--who think they know anything about the Kim family dictatorship. Melanie Kirkpatrick shows how "the new Underground Railroad" is not only providing an escape route from the prison camp that is North Korea, but something even more important as well. She shows how that escape route, aided and expanded, can bring down North Korea's despotic regime and free its entire people. Kirkpatrick combines exhaustive reporting with insightful analysis in a powerful and compelling tale of repression and freedom." -- John R. Bolton, Former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations "A riveting, meticulously researched account of the harrowing journey North Koreans must take to reach freedom. Kirkpatrick describes in detail the secret network of safe houses, transit routes and brokers that have emerged in China and other countries to enable North Koreans to escape. Similar to the Underground Railroad in the United States that liberated slaves, the network achieves inspiring successes and tragic failures. The book will interest both the general public and serve as a powerful tool for policymakers, academics and advocates interested in lending support to one of the world's most persecuted people." -- Roberta Cohen, Co-chair of the Committee for Human Rights in North Korea
Copyright Date
2012
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2012-007386
Dewey Decimal
305.9/0691409513
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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