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- Hahm Chaibong
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- 13-05-01 15:00
The Asan Institute for Policy Studies hosted a book launch for "Escape From Camp 14" on Thursday, May 2nd with Blaine Harden.
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North Korea’s political prison camps have existed twice as long as Stalin’s Soviet gulags and twelve times as long as the Nazi concentration camps. No one born and raised in these camps is known to have escaped. No one, that is, except Shin Dong-hyuk. In Escape From Camp 14, Blaine Harden unlocks the secrets of the world’s most repressive totalitarian state through the story of Shin Dong-hyuk’s shocking imprisonment and his astounding getaway. Harden’s harrowing narrative exposes a hidden dystopia, focusing on an extraordinary young man who came of age inside the highest security prison in the highest security state. Escape from Camp 14 offers an unequalled inside account of one of the world’s darkest nations. It is a tale of endurance and courage, survival and hope.
About the Author
Mr. Blaine Harden is the recent author of the international bestseller Escape from Camp 14. He is currently working on a second book about North Korea and contributes to Foreign Policy, PBS Frontline, and The Economist. Previously, Mr. Harden worked for The Washington Post as a correspondent in Africa, Eastern Europe, and Asia, as well as in New York and Seattle. He was also a national correspondent for The New York Times and writer for the Times Magazine. He is the author of A River Lost and Africa: Dispatches from a Fragile Continent. His awards for journalism include the Ernie Pyle Award, the American Society of Newspaper Editors Award, and the Livingston Award for International Reporting.
Date/Time: Thursday, May 2nd, 2013/ 10:00-13:00
Place: Lecture Hall 1F, The Asan Institute for Policy Studies
Hahm Chaibong
President
Dr. HAHM Chaibong is the president of the Asan Institute for Policy Studies. Previously, he was a senior political scientist at the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica, California, professor in the School of International Relations and the Department of Political Science as well as the director of the Korean Studies Institute at the University of Southern California, Director (D-1) of the Division of Social Sciences Research & Policy at UNESCO in Paris, and a professor in the Department of Political Science at Yonsei University. Dr. Hahm is the author of numerous books and articles, including “China’s Future is South Korea’s Present,” Foreign Affairs, (Sep/Oct 2018), Hanguk Saram Mandeulgi (Becoming Korean), Vols. I, II, (Asan Academy, 2017), “Keeping Northeast Asia ‘Abnormal’: Origins of the Liberal International Order in Northeast Asia and the New Cold War,” Asan Forum (Sep., 2017), “South Korea’s Miraculous Democracy,” Journal of Democracy (Jul., 2008), “The Two South Koreas: A House Divided,” The Washington Quarterly (Jun., 2005), and Confucianism for the Modern World (co-edited with Daniel A. Bell, Cambridge University Press, 2003).