North Korea
A Nation of Racist Dwarfs by Christopher Hitchens
Visiting North Korea some years ago, I was lucky to have a fairly genial "minder" whom I'll call Mr. Chae. He guided me patiently around the ruined and starving country, explaining things away by means of a sort of denial mechanism and never seeming to lose interest in the gargantuan monuments to the world's most hysterical and operatic leader-cult.
Surviving North Korea's house of the dead By David Wilson
The 59-year-old author of Long Road Home: Testimony of a North Korean Camp Survivor (Columbia University Press) is busy pursuing a family mission. So said his fresh-faced ghost writer Suk-Young Kim, adding that Kim Yong has yet to learn how to use e-mail, which makes it even harder to track him down.
To Live And Die In N.K.: How I Escaped North Korea And Lived To Tell About It by Kim Hyun Sik
I first met Kim Jong Il in October 1959. He was a senior at the elite Namsan Senior High School, and I was a 27-year-old professor of Russian at the Pyongyang University of Education. I also happened to have been chosen as a private tutor for the family of North Korean President Kim Il Sung. One day, the Great Leader remarked that he found his son’s Russian to be very poor and told me to go to his school and evaluate both Kim Jong Il’s proficiency and the quality of Russian education there.
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