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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Peacebound trains
Balgassi, Haemi.
Paper Book
As Sumi waits for the train that will bring her mother back after a long absence, Grandmother tells how her family escaped on a train from Seoul, Korea, at the last moment before the Korean War began.
King of spies the dark reign of America's spymaster in Korea
Harden, Blaine author.
Paper Book
The New York Times bestselling author of Escape from Camp 14 returns with the untold story of one of the most powerful spies in American history, shedding new light on the U.S. role in the Korean War, and its legacy In 1946, master sergeant...
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-
Ebook
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
"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...
In the tunnel
Lee, Julie (Children's fiction writer)
Paper Book
Trapped in an enemy tunnel, a young refugee experiences the Korean War firsthand in this searing story of survival, loss, and hope, a companion to the Freeman Award-winning novel Brother's Keeper. Myung-gi knows war is coming- War between North and South Korea. Life in...
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...
North Korea confidential private markets, fashion trends, prison camps, dissenters and defectors
Tudor, Daniel, 1982- author.
Paper Book
**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...
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 has become an amazing accidental nature preserve that gives hope for a brighter future for a...

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