North Korea

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A haunting memoir of teaching English to the sons of North Korea's ruling class during the last six months of Kim Jongil's reign Every day, three times a day, the students march in two straight lines, singing praises to Kim Jongil and North Korea: Without you, there is no motherland. Without you, there is no us. It is a chilling scene, but grad...

Nothing to Envy follows the lives of six North Koreans over fifteen years?a chaotic period that saw the death of Kim Ilsung, the unchallenged rise to power of his son Kim Jongil, and the devastation of a farranging famine that killed onefifth of the population. Taking us into a landscape most of us have never before seen, awardwinning journali...

Pak Jun Do is the haunted son of a lost mother?a singer ?stolen? to Pyongyang?and an influential father who runs a work camp for orphans. Superiors in the North Korean state soon recognize the boy?s loyalty and keen instincts. Considering himself ?a humble citizen of the greatest nation in the world,? Jun Do rises in the ranks. He becomes a profe...

Yeonmi Park has told the harrowing story of her escape from North Korea as a child many times, but never before has she revealed the most intimate and devastating details of the repressive society she was raised in and the enormous price she paid to escape. Park?s family was loving and closeknit, but life in North Korea was brutal, practically med...

In this rare insider's view into contemporary North Korea, a highranking counterintelligence agent describes his life as a former poet laureate to Kim Jongil and his breathtaking escape to freedom."The General will now enter the room."Everyone turns to stone. Not moving my head, I direct my eyes to a point halfway up the archway where Kim Jongil...

The behindthescenes story of the rise and reign of the world's strangest and most elusive tyrant, Kim Jong Un, by the journalist with the best connections and insights into the bizarrely dangerous world of North Korea.Since his birth in 1984, Kim Jong Un has been swaddled in myth and propaganda, from the plainly sillyhe could supposedly drive a...

A New York Times bestseller, the shocking story of one of the few people born in a North Korean political prison to have escaped and survived.North Korea is isolated and hungry, bankrupt and belligerent. It is also armed with nuclear weapons. Between 150,000 and 200,000 people are being held in its political prison camps, which have existed twice a...

How friendship, European literature, and a charismatic professor defy war, oppression, and the absurd Set in 1980s South Korea amid the tremors of political revolution, I?ll Be Right There follows Jung Yoon, a highly literate, twentysomething woman, as she recounts her tragic personal history as well as those of her three intimate college friend...

Understanding North Korea through its propaganda: A newly revised and updated edition that includes a consideration of Kim Jung Il's successor, Kim JongUn What do the North Koreans really believe How do they see themselves and the world around them Here B.R. Myers, a North Korea analyst and a contributing editor of The Atlantic, presents the fir...

?A meaty, fastpaced portrait of North Korean society, economy, politics and foreign policy.? Foreign AffairsThe definitive account of North Korea, its veiled past and uncertain future, from the former Director for Asian Affairs at the National Security CouncilIn The Impossible State, seasoned internationalpolicy expert and lauded scholar Victor ...

Named one of the best books of 2015 by The Economist Private Markets, Fashion Trends, Prison Camps, Dissenters and Defectors.North Korea is one of the most troubled societies on earth. The country's 24 million people live under a violent dictatorship led by a single family, which relentlessly pursues the development of nuclear arms, which perio...

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An emotionally riveting debut novel about war, family, and forbidden love?the unforgettable saga of two illfated lovers in Korea and the heartbreaking choices they?re forced to make in the years surrounding the civil war that still haunts us today.When the communistbacked army from the north invades her home, sixteenyearold Haemi Lee, along wit...

The Talented Mr. Ripley meets The Bad Seed in this breathless, chilling psychological thriller by the bestselling novelist known as "Korea's Stephen King" Who can you trust if you can't trust yourself Early one morning, twentysixyearold Yujin wakes up to a strange metallic smell, and a phone call from his brother asking if everything's all ri...

Suzy Park is a twentynineyearold Korean American interpreter for the New York City court system who makes a startling and ominous discovery about her family history that will send her on a chilling quest. Five years prior, her parentshardworking greengrocers who forfeited personal happiness for their children's gainwere brutally murdered in ...

A foreign film importer, Giyeong is a family man with a wife and daughter. An aficionado of Heineken, soccer, and sushi, he is also a North Korean spy who has been living among his enemies for twentyone years.Suddenly he receives a mysterious email, a directive seemingly from the home office. He has one day to return to headquarters. He hasn?t he...

With this compelling and unforgettable memoir based on her acclaimed TED Talk, which has over 10 million views, Hyeonseo Lee becomes one of the first female defectors from North Korea to share her story; like I Am Malala and Infidel, this is a narrative of sacrifice, survival, and extraordinary courage.As a child growing up in North Korea, Hyeonseo...

Mija and Youngsook, two girls living on the Korean island of Jeju, are best friends who come from very different backgrounds. When they are old enough, they begin working in the sea with their village?s allfemale diving collective, led by Youngsook?s mother. As the girls take up their positions as baby divers, they know they are beginning a lif...

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"Destined to become a classic" (Iris Chang, author of The Rape of Nanking), this harrowing memoir of life inside North Korea was the first account to emerge from the notoriously secretive country and it remains one of the most terrifying. Amid escalating nuclear tensions, Kim Jongun and North Korea's other leaders have kept a tight grasp on the...

Andrei Lankov has gone where few outsiders have ever been. A native of the former Soviet Union, he lived as an exchange student in North Korea in the 1980s. He has studied it for his entire career, using his fluency in Korean and personal contacts to build a rich, nuanced understanding. In The Real North Korea, Lankov substitutes cold, clear analys...

Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader offers indepth portraits of North Korea's two ruthless and bizarrely Orwellian leaders, Kim IlSung and Kim JongIl. Lifting North Korea's curtain of selfimposed isolation, this book will take readers inside a society, that to a Westerner, will appear to be from another planet. Subsisting on a diet sho...

Sunhee and her older brother, Taeyul, live in Korea with their parents. Because Korea is under Japanese occupation, the children study Japanese and speak it at school. Their own language, their flag, the folktales Uncle tells them?even their names?are all part of the Korean culture that is now forbidden. When World War II comes to Korea, Sunhee ...

The Accusation received astonishing attention in hardcover and became a global publishing sensation, hailed as the first book of dissident fiction to emerge from North Korea. A collection of searing and heartwrenching stories by an anonymous North Korean writer who is still living in the country, The Accusation was smuggled to South Korea to be pu...