" We left in the same kind of truck that had brought us to the camp ten years earlier. When it started up, I was taken back to our departure from Pyongyang, and to my mother's tear-lined face as it receded into the distance. The vision struck me with new and unexpected force - for I had all but forgotten my mother. "

― Kang Chol-Hwan , The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag