Kang Chol-hwan
Kang Chol-Hwan meeting with George Bush.
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Kang Chol-Hwan meeting with Jay Lefkowitz: President Bush's Special Envoy for Human Rights in North Korea.
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Kang Chol-Hwan talking about his memoir, which talked about his time in a North Korean Prison Camp.
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A satelite image of Camp 16 in North Korea. This is where Kwang Chol-Hwan was imprisoned,.
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Kang Chol-Hwan was imprisoned in a revolutionary control zone in 1977. The camp in which he was imprisoned was Camp 16. He wrote about his imprisonment in his memoir The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag. On June 13, 2005 Mr. Kang was invited to have a 40 minute meeting with President George Bush. A few days prior to the meeting George Bush had allotted only a few more minutes to speak with the president of South Korea, Roh Moo Hyun. Kang Chol-Hwan reported that," He was more interested in the pains North Koreans are going through, more so than I had previously thought."
Kang Chol-Hwan at the Oslo Freedom Forum 2010