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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The rebel and the kingdom the true story of the secret mission to overthrow the North Korean regime
Hope, Bradley
Paper Book
How did an Ivy League activist become a global fugitive? The New York Times bestselling co-author of Billion Dollar Whale and Blood and Oil chronicles the heart-pounding tale of a self-taught operative his high-stakes attempt subvert the North Korean regime. ...
The orphan master's son [electronic resource] A Novel
Johnson, Adam, 1967-
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
North Korea is today one of the last bastions of hard-line Communism. Its leaders have kept a tight grasp on their one-party regime, quashing any nascent opposition movements and sending all suspected dissidents to its brutal concentration camps for "re-education." Kang Chol-hwan is the first...
When spring comes to the DMZ
Yi, Ŏk-pae author, illustrator.
Paper Book
Batchelder Honor Winner, 2020 ALA Youth Media Awards Honorable Mention, 2019 Freeman Awards (National Consortium for Teaching about Asia) Korea's demilitarized zone (DMZ) has become an amazing accidental nature preserve that gives hope for a brighter future for a...

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