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Title: Eyes of the Tailless Animals: Prison Memoirs of a North Korean Woman by Soon Ok Lee ISBN: 0-88264-335-5 Publisher: Living Sacrifice Book Company Pub. Date: October, 1999 Format: Paperback List Price(USD): $10.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.75 (8 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Oh wow.
Comment: It's hard to say that a book like this is good. Perhaps HORRIBLY informative is a better way to put it.
Rating: 5
Summary: Amazing and Informative
Comment: The purpose of this novel is not only to reveal the atrocities that occur in the prison camps in North Korea, but also to explain the mentality of the North Koreans that enforce these crimes.
The author explains that because all organized religion is banned in North Korea, the cult of Kim Il-Sung and Kim Jong-Il takes the place of religion. The North Koreans have no concept of God, and instead, they worship a man and consider his state policies to be the divine word: "...Several books of anecdotes illustrating the infinite wisdom and love for the people of the Great Leader Comrade Kim Il Sung ... are like books of stories about Jesus ... Obviously it aims at binding the hearts of the people to their leader to obtain their unquestioning loyalty and obedience and unite them in a common faith. The quasi-religious element has been explicitly acknowledged."**
Soon Ok Lee's goal is not to explain her suffering in graphic detail, but to show what can happen in a society in which the morals of a mad-man are worshiped: Torture becomes acceptable, brutality becomes the norm, and no human life has value, except for those of the "Great Leader" and the "Dear Leader." [...]
The author believes that the only way to combat the ignorance of the brainwashed North Korean people is to bombard them with bibles, for it will teach them to question the status of their "godly" leaders, while it will also instill in them a respect for humanity.[...]The author lived through this, we did not, and she offers insight, ideas, and solutions to human rights violations in North Korea -- [...]**Quoted from "A Year in Pyongyang," : http://www.aidanfc.net/a_year_in_pyongyang_p.html
Rating: 5
Summary: A Must Read!
Comment: This book opened my eyes about the true intentions behind the North Korean regime. This reclusive regime thought it could keep its political prisons secret to the world. However, thanks to such courageous survivors as Ms. Lee we now know what is really going on in the hermetic North.
Those interested in human justice must read this book.
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Title: The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag by Kang Chol-Hwan, Pierre Rigoulot, Yair Reiner ISBN: 0465011020 Publisher: Basic Books Pub. Date: 03 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: The Tears of My Soul by Hyun Hee Kim, Kim Hyun Hee, Hyon-Hui Kim ISBN: 0688128335 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: October, 1993 List Price(USD): $77.00 |
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Title: North Korea through the Looking Glass by Kong Dan Oh, Ralph C. Hassig, Kongdan Oh ISBN: 0815764359 Publisher: The Brookings Institution Pub. Date: 01 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: North Korea: Another Country by Bruce Cumings ISBN: 156584873X Publisher: New Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: In North Korea: An American Travels Through an Imprisoned Nation by Nanchu, Xing Hang ISBN: 0786416912 Publisher: McFarland & Company Pub. Date: July, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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