North Korea Confidential

North Korea is a country where everyone is thought to worship a power-crazed dictator, where disputes with neighboring South Korea frequently break out into violence, where nuclear bombs are detonated with alarming regularity, and where most people are assumed to be on the verge of starvation. But is this an accurate view of daily life in North Korea today? Read this book to find out.

In seven fascinating chapters the authors explore what life is really like for ordinary North Koreans. They tap a broad variety of sources—from interviews with members of Pyongyang’s ruling elite to defectors, diplomats, NGOs and cross-border traders, as well as written accounts in English, Korean and Chinese–to bring together a radically different view of North Korean society today.