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
Winging It  by Lia RussSeven Years in Tibet by Heinrich HarrerReading Lolita in Tehran by Azar NafisiA Capitalist in North Korea by Felix AbtThe Great Railway Bazaar by Paul Theroux
Adventure Travel & Exploration In Asia
350 books — 185 voters
The Frontlines of Peace by Severine AutesserreBlack Hawk Down by Mark BowdenMy War Gone By, I Miss It So by Anthony LoydA Capitalist in North Korea by Felix AbtSketches from the Periphery by M.P. Summers
Conflict-Zone Journalism
284 books — 143 voters

A Spy Among Friends by Ben MacintyreIron Curtain by Anne ApplebaumThe Triumph of Improvisation by James Graham WilsonThe Billion Dollar Spy by David E. HoffmanThe Spy and the Traitor by Ben Macintyre
The Cold War (nonfiction)
371 books — 113 voters
Carrying Cambodia by Hans KempSacred Skin by Tom VaterBikes of Burden by Hans KempCHINA by Tom  CarterVietnam Zippos by Sherry Buchanan
Best Asia Photography Books
30 books — 23 voters

Christopher Hitchens
I was hungry when I left Pyongyang. I wasn't hungry just for a bookshop that sold books that weren't about Fat Man and Little Boy. I wasn't ravenous just for a newspaper that had no pictures of F.M. and L.B. I wasn't starving just for a TV program or a piece of music or theater or cinema that wasn't cultist and hero-worshiping. I was hungry. I got off the North Korean plane in Shenyang, one of the provincial capitals of Manchuria, and the airport buffet looked like a cornucopia. I fell on the fo ...more
Christopher Hitchens, Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays

I felt like a frog that had just come out of its pit, from which it had contemplated the circle of sky outlined by the rim, and taken it for the whole of the world. I had passed through to the other side of the mirror. (162)
Hyok Kang

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