North Korea


Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West
The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector's Story
In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom
The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag
Without You, There Is No Us: My Time with the Sons of North Korea's Elite
The Orphan Master's Son
A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea
Dear Leader: Poet, Spy, Escapee - A Look Inside North Korea
Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea
The Accusation: Forbidden Stories from Inside North Korea
Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader: North Korea and the Kim Dynasty
The Real North Korea: Life and Politics in the Failed Stalinist Utopia
A Thousand Miles to Freedom: My Escape from North Korea
A Kim Jong-Il Production: The Extraordinary True Story of a Kidnapped Filmmaker, His Star Actress, and a Young Dictator's Rise to Power
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Christopher Hitchens
In a Pyongyang restaurant, don't ever ask for a doggie bag. ...more
Christopher Hitchens, Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays

Christopher Hitchens
Nobody knows how many North Koreans have died or are dying in the famine—some estimates by foreign-aid groups run as high as three million in the period from 1995 to 1998 alone—but the rotund, jowly face of Kim Il Sung still beams down contentedly from every wall, and the 58-year-old son looks as chubby as ever, even as his slenderized subjects are mustered to applaud him.
Christopher Hitchens, Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays

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