Los Angeles Times journalist Barbara Demick spent several years in the US, Seoul and even North Korea itself, interviewing North-Koreans and defectors and collecting first hand accounts of the daily life in what is still, today, the most reclusive country on the planet: the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. The individual stories she recounts are heartbreaking: living conditions of unimaginable poverty, lives of hardship dedicated to the regime, mind-numbing propaganda, ferocious repression… and everywhere, the same absence of questioning of the party line and the legitimacy of the “Dear Leader”. I hope there comes a day when the North Korean people will rise against its oppressors and be reunited with its brothers in the South. Barbara Demick’s book is not only an outstanding work of journalism, it is set to become a contemporary history reference.
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