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damian2000 · 2013-01-22 · Original thread
This is not the same story, but this book is worth reading...

The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag [by Chol-hwan Kang]

http://www.amazon.com/Aquariums-Pyongyang-Years-North-Korean...

Author was nine years old when imprisoned at the Yodok camp in 1977. Inexplicably released in 1987, he states that the only lesson his imprisonment had "pounded into me was about man's limitless capacity to be vicious."

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