Kim details a haunting and claustrophobic land that is rarely glimpsed by the outside world. I have known traveling friends who visited North Korea, who witnessed the orchestrated and precise dissemination of information during their stay. The author is Korean-American journalist who taught in North Korea under guise of a missionary worker.įrom the moment I picked it up, I was hooked. A week after I watched the film, a close friend recommended Suki Kim’s memoir, Without You, There Is No Us: My Time with the Sons of North Korea’s Elite. Over the holidays, the controversy over the film The Interview put the country back in the spotlight (is it ever far?) and highlighted for the world just how far the North Korean government will go to control information.
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