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Escape from North Korea : The Untold Story of Asia's Underground Railroad by Melanie Kirkpatrick (2014, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherEncounter Books
ISBN-101594037299
ISBN-139781594037290
eBay Product ID (ePID)168598242
Product Key Features
Book TitleEscape from North Korea : the Untold Story of Asia's Underground Railroad
Number of Pages368 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2014
TopicPublic Policy / Immigration, Christian Ministry / General, Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism, Emigration & Immigration, Religious
IllustratorYes
GenreReligion, Political Science, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography
AuthorMelanie Kirkpatrick
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight19 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2013-388885
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal305.9/0691409513
SynopsisFrom 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., 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 neighbouring 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.
LC Classification NumberHV640.5.K67K63 2012
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- Apr 12, 2017
North Korea is a Tomb of Dead People
Considering how dangerous a mad-man dictator is govering North Krea, Americans need to know what is happening there. This book is like a very long newspaper article, interesting, reveaing.,Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
