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Jeffrey Lewis History of Communism part 5 North Korea
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Kim Jong Il (A&E Biography)
He is one of the least-known and understood rulers on earth, a man many Americans had never heard of until his nation was declared a member of the famous "Axis of Evil" by President Bush. From the few known facts of his childhood to the ongoing political firestorm over North Korea's attempts to acquire nuclear weapons, BIOGRAPHY probes deeply into the heart of one of the world's most secretive na... |
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A State of Mind
$16.10 Ostensibly a chronicle of two adolescent North Korean gymnasts' arduous training for their country's biggest athletic spectacle, the 2003 Mass Games, British filmmaker Daniel Gordon's absorbing documentary offers a rare look into daily life--both the hardships and the joys--under one of the world's most isolated and totalitarian regimes. 94 min. Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtrack: English and Korea... |
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The History Channel Korean War Collection : Korea The Forgotten War , The Korean War Fire And Ice : 5 Episodes : 3 DVD SET : 300 Minutes
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Running the DMZ : Korea on the Frontlines - The Korean Conflict Longest-running Military Operation in History
$10.00 Archival footage and photos document crises through the years. The definitive look at the longest-running military operation on earth. Walk the DMZ with past and current soldiers. The conflict in Korea never came to an official end. More than half a century after the end of outright hostilities, soldiers from the United States and the Republic of Korea still stand together at the edge of the no-ma... |
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Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West
$12.58 The shocking story of one of the few people born in a North Korean political prison to have escaped and survived. North Korea is isolated and hungry, bankrupt and belligerent. It is also armed with nuclear weapons. Between 150,000 and 200,000 people are being held in its political prison camps, which have existed twice as long as Stalin's Soviet gulags and twelve times as long as the Nazi concent... |
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The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag
$16.95 North Korea is today one of the last bastions of hard-line Communism. Its leaders have kept a tight grasp on their one-party regime, quashing any nascent opposition movements and sending all suspected dissidents to its brutal concentration camps for "re-education." Kang Chol-hwan is the first survivor of one of these camps to escape and tell his story to the world, documenting the extreme conditio... |
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Long Road Home: Testimony of a North Korean Camp Survivor
$23.99 Kim Yong shares his harrowing account of life in a labor camp& mdash;a singularly despairing form of torture carried out by the secret state. Although it is known that gulags exist in North Korea, little information is available about their organization and conduct, for prisoners rarely escape both incarceration and the country alive. Long Road Home shares the remarkable story of one such survivor... |
