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
[I]f you think that American imperialism and its globalised, capitalist form is the most dangerous thing in the world, that means you don't think the Islamic Republic of Iran or North Korea or the Taliban is as bad. ...more
Christopher Hitchens

Christopher Hitchens
I saw exactly one picture of Marx and one of Lenin in my whole stay, but it's been a long time since ideology had anything to do with it. Not without cunning, Fat Man and Little Boy gradually mutated the whole state belief system into a debased form of Confucianism, in which traditional ancestor worship and respect for order become blended with extreme nationalism and xenophobia. Near the southernmost city of Kaesong, captured by the North in 1951, I was taken to see the beautifully preserved to ...more
Christopher Hitchens, Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays

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