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Article: Dumb and dumber: the Bush administration thinks negotiating with North Korea is appeasement. South Korea thinks negotiating requires appeasement.
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- The Washington Monthly
- Article date:
- July 1, 2005
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In 1977, the North Korean government sent 9-year-old Kang Chul-Hwan and his family to a slave labor camp. While the regime never explained why, the Kang family assumed their imprisonment was retaliation for the activities of Kang's grandfather, who often sharply criticized the management mistakes of Communist Party bureaucrats. At the Yodok concentration camp, Kang ate rats and bugs to keep from starving and witnessed the executions of fellow prisoners. In 1987, at the age of 19, Kang was released along with his family. Not long afterwards, he and a friend crossed the Yalu River on foot into China, an escape route still used today by many North Korean defectors.
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