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This Is Paradise!

autobiography

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 30, 2023
Entity authorityQ17032632 ↗
Source-derived summary

This is Paradise!: My North Korean Childhood is the autobiographical account of Hyok Kang, who describes his childhood in Onsong, North Korea, in the 1980s and 1990s, his escape into China in 1998, his journey through southeast Asia, and his life in South Korea.

The book was originally published in France in 2004, with the title Ici, C'est Le Paradis!: Une enfance en Coree du Nord.

Editorial summary

“This Is Paradise!” enters the record as autobiography. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Paradise and autobiography can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1998, 2004—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2004. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Paradise and autobiography.
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“This Is Paradise!” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Paradise and autobiography provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 30, 2023. The linked authority identifier is Q17032632. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1998 and 2004.

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This entry incorporates text from “This Is Paradise!” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.