Exodus to North Korea

Shadows from Japan's Cold War

von Tessa Morris-Suzuki

302 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Through travels that range from Geneva to Pyongyang, this remarkable book takes readers on an odyssey through one of the most extraordinary forgotten tragedies of the Cold War: the "return" of over 90,000 people, most of them ethnic Koreans, from Japan to North Korea from 1959 onward. For most, their new home proved a place of poverty and hardship; for thousands, it was a place of persecution and death. In rediscovering their extraordinary personal stories, this book also casts new light on the politics of the Cold War, and on present-day tensions between North Korea and the rest of the world.

• Reihe: Asian Voices
• Themen: Geschichte und Archäologie Geschichte Asiatische Geschichte
• ISBN: 9780742554429
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 15.03.2007
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers