At the age of nine Kang Chol-Hwan was sent with his family to a remote concentration camp by the North Korean government, where he remained for the next ten years. Now a journalist in South Korea, Chol-Hwan describes his brutalized childhood in a stark, direct style. His co-author Rigoulot was an editor of The Black Book of Communism.  (KOR22, $16.95)

North Korea