Exodus to North Korea: Shadows from Japan's Cold War

by Tessa Morris-Suzuki

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0742554422
• ISBN13: 9780742554429
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 302 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 8.9"