The Aquariums of Pyongyang
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| Author | Kang Chol-hwan Pierre Rigoulot |
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| Translator | Yair Reiner (French) Kang Chol-hwan (Korean) |
| Genre(s) | Memoir |
| Publisher | The Perseus Press |
| Released | 2000 (France) November 22, 2001 (United States} |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover and paperback) |
| Pages | 238 |
| ISBN | ISBN 1-903985-05-6 |
The Aquariums of Pyongyang, by Kang Chol-Hwan and Pierre Rigoulot, is an account of the imprisonment of Kang Chol-Hwan and his family in the Yodok concentration camp in North Korea. It shows how a powerful family with money and material goods has everything taken from them by the Korean Worker's Party. His grandfather was imprisoned and taken away for suspicious activity against the state of North Korea. Kang Chol-Hwan, his grandmother, father, uncle, and younger sister were taken away and put in Yodok concentration camp #2915. There they suffered and viewed many atrocities for ten years. It also shows his personal assimilative transition in a new society, both in his escape and arrival in South Korea. The newest publication, in 2005, includes an account of his meeting US President George W. Bush. Originally published in French in 2000, and translated into English in 2001 by Yair Reiner and later into Korean, it is one of the first published accounts of the North Korean prison system, and earned Kang Chol-Hwan an audience with the President of the United States [1].
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