Read the World: North Korea

Books by authors from North Korea or set in/about North Korea.

Updated February 1, 2024
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King of spies : the dark reign of America's spymaster in Korea
Harden, Blaine
Paper Book
In King of Spies, prize-winning journalist and bestselling author of Escape From Camp 14, Blaine Harden, reveals one of the most astonishing -- and previously untold -- spy stories of the twentieth century.Donald Nichols was "a one man war", according to his US Air Force commanding general. He won...
The orphan master's son : a novel
Johnson, Adam
Paper Book
The Pulitzer Prize-winning, New York Times betselling novel of North Korea: an epic journey into the heart of the world's most mysterious dictatorship. "Imagine Charles Dickens paying a visit to Pyongyang, and you see the canvas on which [Adam] Johnson is painting...
The aquariums of Pyongyang ten years in the North Korean gulag
Kang, Ch'ŏr-hwan, 1968-
Paper Book
Kang Chol-hwan grew up in North Korean labour camps and escaped to South Korea to document his personal life as a testimonial to the hardships and atrocities that still constitute the lives of several hundred thousand people living in the gulag today.
Under the loving care of the fatherly leader North Korea and the Kim Dynasty
Martin, Bradley K.
Paper Book
"Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader" offers in-depth portraits of North Korea's two ruthless and bizarrely Orwellian leaders, Kim Il-Sung and Kim Jong-Il. Lifting North Korea's curtain of self-imposed isolation, this book will take readers inside a society, that to a Westerner, will appear...

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