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JacktheCat
Joined: 08 May 2004
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 Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2005 6:10 pm Post subject: Bush meets Kang Chol-Hwan |
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Bush met for about 40 minutes in the Oval Office on Monday with Kang Chol-Hwan, who spent time in a North Korean prison camp and wrote the book, "The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years In The North Korean Gulag."
"The president read the book, it is a compelling story. The president is very concerned about the human rights situation in North Korea," White House spokesman Scott McClellan said.
The author is now a journalist in South Korea.
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George W. Bush can read a book that complex and understand it?
Who would have thunk it.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050614/wl_nm/korea_north_rice_dc;_ylt=AmC7Lp.kfBQKXlSswn_qDmhvaA8F;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl |
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Teufelswacht
Joined: 06 Sep 2004
Location: Land Of The Not Quite Right
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| Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2005 2:33 am Post subject: |
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I read this in Chosun Ilbo today. The last line is what really caught my attention. Has the book been translated/written in Korean? It is easy to make the asumption that it has, but after reading the last sentence I not so sure. If it isn't available in Korean, why not?
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Bush Meets N.Korean Defector Behind 'Aquariums Of Pyongyang'
U.S. President George W. Bush on Monday met with North Korean defector and Chosun Ilbo journalist Kang Chol-hwan at the White House for a 40-minute discussion on human rights in the Stalinist country. Kang, 37, is the author of the book "The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag," which put the spotlight on North Korea��s forced labor camps.
Bush told Kang he found the book ��heartrending�� and said he asked him to the Oval Officer to hear frank talk about North Korea. The president recommended the book to all Americans to learn what the reclusive country is really like. A high-ranking White House official said the president was deeply moved when he read Kang's book some months ago and wanted to meet the writer. The meeting was also attended by Vice President Dick Cheney and Michael Green, the Asia director of the National Security Council.
Kang, who was born in Pyongyang, was imprisoned in Yodok concentration camp when he was only nine years old and spent 10 terrible years there. He escaped to South Korea in 1992. "The Aquariums of Pyongyang," co-written with French journalist Pierre Rigoulot in 2000, has been published in English, French, Spanish and other languages.
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howie2424
Joined: 09 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 9:40 pm Post subject: |
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| Just finished reading the book. Very interesting read, I'd highly recommend it. |
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seoulunitarian
Joined: 06 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 9:44 pm Post subject: re: |
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| Teufelswacht wrote: |
I read this in Chosun Ilbo today. The last line is what really caught my attention. Has the book been translated/written in Korean? It is easy to make the asumption that it has, but after reading the last sentence I not so sure. If it isn't available in Korean, why not?
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Bush Meets N.Korean Defector Behind 'Aquariums Of Pyongyang'
U.S. President George W. Bush on Monday met with North Korean defector and Chosun Ilbo journalist Kang Chol-hwan at the White House for a 40-minute discussion on human rights in the Stalinist country. Kang, 37, is the author of the book "The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag," which put the spotlight on North Korea��s forced labor camps.
Bush told Kang he found the book ��heartrending�� and said he asked him to the Oval Officer to hear frank talk about North Korea. The president recommended the book to all Americans to learn what the reclusive country is really like. A high-ranking White House official said the president was deeply moved when he read Kang's book some months ago and wanted to meet the writer. The meeting was also attended by Vice President *beep* Cheney and Michael Green, the Asia director of the National Security Council.
Kang, who was born in Pyongyang, was imprisoned in Yodok concentration camp when he was only nine years old and spent 10 terrible years there. He escaped to South Korea in 1992. "The Aquariums of Pyongyang," co-written with French journalist Pierre Rigoulot in 2000, has been published in English, French, Spanish and other languages.
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It's not available in Korean (at least the Books Libro helper said it wasn't) probably due to the insane appeasement policy the SK government has toward the little man up North.
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gypsyfish
Joined: 17 Jan 2003
Location: Seoul
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mithridates
Joined: 03 Mar 2003
Location: President's office, Korean Space Agency
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| Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2005 7:35 am Post subject: |
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| Maybe we should get together, translate the thing and sell it at Whatthebook. |
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seoulunitarian
Joined: 06 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Sun Jun 19, 2005 5:32 pm Post subject: re: |
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| mithridates wrote: |
| Maybe we should get together, translate the thing and sell it at Whatthebook. |
I'll help fund a Korean translation.
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howie2424
Joined: 09 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sun Jun 19, 2005 5:49 pm Post subject: |
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| Good luck guys. Last night I told my girlfriend, a graduate of Ehwa Women's University, about Kang Chol-hwan's account of how North Koreans are taught that Ehwa is a school for prostitutes who sleep with US soldiers. Her response? "I don't want to know anything else about that book." As much as I love her, I suspect this would be the typical Korean response. Folks here just don't seem too interested in what's going on up there. It's just so much easier for them to spend their time hating the Japanese or the Americans for all their perceived woes. |
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Teufelswacht
Joined: 06 Sep 2004
Location: Land Of The Not Quite Right
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| Posted: Sun Jun 19, 2005 7:11 pm Post subject: |
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| howie2424 wrote: |
| ... Her response? "I don't want to know anything else about that book.".... |
I wonder what she has heard about "that book" and from whom. |
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matthews_world
Joined: 15 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Sun Jun 19, 2005 9:08 pm Post subject: |
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Shouldn't this be "heartwrenching"?
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funplanet
Joined: 20 Jun 2003
Location: The new Bucheon!
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| Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2005 3:27 am Post subject: |
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| actually, Kerry's GPA was worse than Bush's....hehehehe ain't that funny?!!! |
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