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North Korea Books
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Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 815 times as north-korea)
avg rating 4.46 — 99,887 ratings — published 2009
Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 515 times as north-korea)
avg rating 4.01 — 72,111 ratings — published 2012
The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector's Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 412 times as north-korea)
avg rating 4.43 — 101,675 ratings — published 2014
In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 393 times as north-korea)
avg rating 4.48 — 105,020 ratings — published 2015
The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag (Paperback)
by (shelved 343 times as north-korea)
avg rating 4.12 — 11,477 ratings — published 2000
Without You, There Is No Us: My Time with the Sons of North Korea's Elite (Hardcover)
by (shelved 324 times as north-korea)
avg rating 3.93 — 22,311 ratings — published 2014
The Orphan Master's Son (Hardcover)
by (shelved 296 times as north-korea)
avg rating 4.07 — 104,301 ratings — published 2012
A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 266 times as north-korea)
avg rating 4.28 — 62,316 ratings — published 2000
Dear Leader: Poet, Spy, Escapee - A Look Inside North Korea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 252 times as north-korea)
avg rating 4.33 — 9,588 ratings — published 2014
Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea (Paperback)
by (shelved 183 times as north-korea)
avg rating 3.88 — 28,913 ratings — published 2003
The Accusation: Forbidden Stories from Inside North Korea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 179 times as north-korea)
avg rating 3.99 — 7,356 ratings — published 2014
Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader: North Korea and the Kim Dynasty (Paperback)
by (shelved 166 times as north-korea)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,184 ratings — published 2004
The Real North Korea: Life and Politics in the Failed Stalinist Utopia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 153 times as north-korea)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,043 ratings — published 2013
A Thousand Miles to Freedom: My Escape from North Korea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 134 times as north-korea)
avg rating 3.97 — 8,413 ratings — published 2012
A Kim Jong-Il Production: The Extraordinary True Story of a Kidnapped Filmmaker, His Star Actress, and a Young Dictator's Rise to Power (Hardcover)
by (shelved 133 times as north-korea)
avg rating 4.21 — 6,293 ratings — published 2015
The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves and Why It Matters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 128 times as north-korea)
avg rating 3.91 — 2,084 ratings — published 2010
Every Falling Star: The True Story of How I Survived and Escaped North Korea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 107 times as north-korea)
avg rating 4.30 — 7,661 ratings — published 2016
North Korea Confidential: Private Markets, Fashion Trends, Prison Camps, Dissenters and Defectors (Hardcover)
by (shelved 107 times as north-korea)
avg rating 3.65 — 2,670 ratings — published 2015
This Is Paradise! My North Korean Childhood (Paperback)
by (shelved 107 times as north-korea)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,506 ratings — published 2004
The Impossible State: North Korea, Past and Future – A Must-Read History of the Kim Dynasty's Regime and Collapse (Hardcover)
by (shelved 98 times as north-korea)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,892 ratings — published 2012
The Great Successor: The Divinely Perfect Destiny of Brilliant Comrade Kim Jong Un (Hardcover)
by (shelved 91 times as north-korea)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,772 ratings — published 2019
Stars Between the Sun and Moon: One Woman's Life in North Korea and Escape to Freedom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 91 times as north-korea)
avg rating 4.31 — 2,083 ratings — published 2014
Under the Same Sky: From Starvation in North Korea to Salvation in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 88 times as north-korea)
avg rating 4.23 — 2,321 ratings — published 2015
The Reluctant Communist: My Desertion, Court-Martial, and Forty-Year Imprisonment in North Korea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as north-korea)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,336 ratings — published
Somewhere Inside: One Sister's Captivity in North Korea and the Other's Fight to Bring Her Home (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as north-korea)
avg rating 4.05 — 5,184 ratings — published 2010
North of the DMZ: Essays on Daily Life in North Korea (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as north-korea)
avg rating 3.93 — 596 ratings — published 2007
The Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot: The True Story of the Tyrant Who Created North Korea and The Young Lieutenant Who Stole His Way to Freedom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as north-korea)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,510 ratings — published 2015
The Tears of My Soul (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as north-korea)
avg rating 4.14 — 2,431 ratings — published 1993
The Invitation-Only Zone: The True Story of North Korea's Abduction Project (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as north-korea)
avg rating 3.88 — 697 ratings — published 2019
Long Road Home: Testimony of a North Korean Camp Survivor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as north-korea)
avg rating 4.16 — 716 ratings — published 2009
North Korea Undercover: Inside the World's Most Secret State (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as north-korea)
avg rating 3.61 — 1,400 ratings — published 2013
My Holiday in North Korea: The Funniest/Worst Place on Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as north-korea)
avg rating 3.67 — 2,520 ratings — published 2016
Only Beautiful, Please: A British Diplomat in North Korea (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as north-korea)
avg rating 4.02 — 393 ratings — published 2012
How I Became a North Korean (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as north-korea)
avg rating 3.50 — 1,531 ratings — published 2016
North Korea Journal (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as north-korea)
avg rating 3.84 — 4,241 ratings — published 2019
North Korea's Hidden Revolution: How the Information Underground Is Transforming a Closed Society (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as north-korea)
avg rating 3.97 — 450 ratings — published
A Corpse in the Koryo (Inspector O, #1)
by (shelved 41 times as north-korea)
avg rating 3.45 — 1,767 ratings — published 2006
Friend (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as north-korea)
avg rating 3.47 — 615 ratings — published 1988
Star of the North (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as north-korea)
avg rating 4.20 — 8,251 ratings — published 2018
See You Again in Pyongyang: A Journey into Kim Jong Un's North Korea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as north-korea)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,102 ratings — published 2018
Becoming Kim Jong Un: A Former CIA Officer's Insights into North Korea's Enigmatic Young Dictator (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as north-korea)
avg rating 3.76 — 1,328 ratings — published 2020
The Hidden People of North Korea: Everyday Life in the Hermit Kingdom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as north-korea)
avg rating 3.60 — 194 ratings — published 2009
Escape from North Korea: The Untold Story of Asia's Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as north-korea)
avg rating 3.89 — 672 ratings — published 2012
Escaping North Korea: Defiance and Hope in the World's Most Repressive Country (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as north-korea)
avg rating 3.73 — 534 ratings — published 2008
Pachinko (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 29 times as north-korea)
avg rating 4.34 — 627,366 ratings — published 2017
The World Is Bigger Now: An American Journalist's Release from Captivity in North Korea . . . A Remarkable Story of Faith, Family, and Forgiveness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as north-korea)
avg rating 3.72 — 707 ratings — published 2010
A Capitalist in North Korea: My Seven Years in the Hermit Kingdom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as north-korea)
avg rating 3.61 — 251 ratings — published 2012
While Time Remains: A North Korean Defector's Search for Freedom in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as north-korea)
avg rating 3.97 — 5,114 ratings — published 2023
The Two Koreas: A Contemporary History (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as north-korea)
avg rating 3.98 — 953 ratings — published 1997
Not Forgotten: The True Story of My Imprisonment in North Korea (MP3 CD)
by (shelved 24 times as north-korea)
avg rating 4.13 — 991 ratings — published 2016
“I think there will come a time when the whole world will destroy itself by fighting each other. In this race for power, wars, missiles and interests, big countries will stand against each other,
But there is one country that everyone will think a hundred times before messing with.
Because the principle there is simple: missiles will go first, questions will be asked later.
That country is North Korea.
A country with which the world calculates, fears and retreats before messing with it.
The rest of the world may continue to confuse itself, to wage wars, but no one will clash with this guy.
I think if there is one power, one thought, one generation left on earth in the end, it will be North Korea.
Because here power is silent, but decisive.
And that is why the world thinks a hundred times before messing with it:.”
―
But there is one country that everyone will think a hundred times before messing with.
Because the principle there is simple: missiles will go first, questions will be asked later.
That country is North Korea.
A country with which the world calculates, fears and retreats before messing with it.
The rest of the world may continue to confuse itself, to wage wars, but no one will clash with this guy.
I think if there is one power, one thought, one generation left on earth in the end, it will be North Korea.
Because here power is silent, but decisive.
And that is why the world thinks a hundred times before messing with it:.”
―
“It would be nice to think that the menacing aspects of North Korea were for display also, that the bombs and reactors were Potemkin showcases or bargaining chips. On the plane from Beijing I met a group of unsmiling Texan types wearing baseball caps. They were the 'in-country' team from the International Atomic Energy Agency, there to inspect and neutralize North Korea's plutonium rods. Not a nice job, but, as they say, someone has to do it. Speaking of the most controversial reactor at Yongbyon, one of the guys said, 'No sweat. She's shut down now.' Nice to know. But then, so is the rest of North Korean society shut down—animation suspended, all dead quiet on the set, endlessly awaiting not action (we hope) or even cameras, but light.”
― Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays
― Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays
