This autobiographical novel narrated by the author’s eponymous character candidly shares the story of his birth, childhood as a sensitive boy, school years marked by infatuations with a male friend and teacher, military service as superiors’ favorite, agony as a newlywed realizing that he is unfit for marriage, roving through China as a North Korean … [Read More]
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The Rebel and the Kingdom: The True Story of the Secret Mission to Overthrow the North Korean Regime
A gripping account of an Ivy League activist-turned-fugitive and his clandestine effort to overthrow the murderous North Korean regime, a heart-pounding investigation into personal agency and the price of freedom from the New York Times bestselling co-author of Billion Dollar Whale In the early 2000s Adrian Hong was a soft-spoken undergraduate at Yale who, like … [Read More]
The North Korean Army: History, Structure, Daily Life
This book focuses on the Korean People’s Army (KPA) – the armed forces of North Korea – covering its history, structural organisation and lives of the soldiers and officers within its ranks. Utilising extensive Korean, English, Russian and Chinese language sources, as well as multiple interviews with people who have served in the KPA, this … [Read More]
North Korean Women in Power: Daughters of the Sun
North Korean Women in Power is the first field report on North Korea written by a South Korean woman reporter in English. Chun Su-jin, who refers to herself as a “Korean-Korean (South Korean nationality with a North Korean heritage),” introduces four North Korean women who make Chairman Kim Jong-un complete—the one and only blood to … [Read More]
The Sorcerer of Pyongyang
Growing up amid the starvation and oppression of 1990s North Korea, 10-year-old Cho Jun-su stumbles upon a mysterious game, left behind in a hotel room by a rare foreign visitor. As Jun-su painstakingly deciphers the rules of the game in secret, he unlocks an inner world that is at first an antidote and then a … [Read More]
The Lazarus Heist: From Hollywood to High Finance: Inside North Korea’s Global Cyber War
Investigative journalist, author and broadcaster Geoff White is among the UK’s leading technology specialists, working for the BBC, Channel 4 News, The Sunday Times and many more. In a career spanning 20 years he has covered election hacking, the dark web, the personal data trade and the emergence of cybercrime as one of the primal … [Read More]
The Hard Road Out: Escaping North Korea
North Korea is an open-air prison from which there is no escape. Only a handful of men and women have succeeded. Jihyun Park is one of these rare survivors. Twice she left the land of the ‘socialist miracle’ to flee famine and dictatorship. By the age of 29 she had already witnessed a lifetime of … [Read More]
North Korean Defectors in Diaspora: Identities, Mobilities, and Resettlements
This edited collection investigates the mobilities, resettlement practices, and identities of North Korean defectors who have relocated to the United Kingdom, the United States, Japan, and South Korea. The contributors to this volume examine the complex nature of defection from North Korea, highlighting the ways in which defectors renegotiate their identities in order to adapt … [Read More]
The Two Koreas and their Global Engagements
This book departs from existing studies by focusing on the impact of international influences on the society, culture, and language of both North and South Korea. Since President Kim Young Sam’s segyehwa drive of the mid-1990s, South Korea has become a model for successful globalization. In contrast, North Korea is commonly considered one of the least … [Read More]
My Father’s North Korea Story: Walk to Freedom
My Father’s North Korea Story: Walk to Freedom is a non-fiction memoir written by the father of a North Korean defector that high-lights the tumultuous journey faced by millions of individuals still struggling to escape the harrowing conditions under the Kim regime. About the Author Won-chae Han, born in 1943, lived in the North Korean … [Read More]
A History of Protestantism in Korea
This book provides a comprehensive overview of Protestant Christianity in Korea. It outlines the development of Christianity in Korea before Protestantism, considers the introduction of Protestantism in the late nineteenth century and its widening and profound impact, and goes on to discuss the situation up to the present. Throughout the book emphasises the importance of … [Read More]
Greenlight to Freedom: A North Korean Daughter’s Search for Her Mother and Herself
What does the word “lucky” mean to you? This true story of a girl’s harrowing escape from North Korea, will cause you to re-examine the meaning of the word luck. Despite enduring abuse, starvation, homelessness, surveillance, and endless hardships, Songmi feels lucky and grateful to have escaped from North Korea. She shares her account of growing … [Read More]
The North Korean Conundrum: Balancing Human Rights and Nuclear Security
North Korea is consistently identified as one of the world’s worst human rights abusers. However, the issue of human rights in North Korea is a complex one, intertwined with issues like life in the North Korean police state, inter-Korean relations, denuclearization, access to information in the North, and international cooperation, to name a few. There … [Read More]
Outsiders: Memories of Migration to and from North Korea
In this unique and insightful book, Markus Bell explores the hidden histories of the men, women, and children who traveled from Japan to the world’s most secretive state—North Korea. Through vivid ethnographic details and interviews with North Korean escapees, Outsiders: Memories of Migration to and from North Korea reveals the driving forces that propelled thousands of ordinary … [Read More]
Interviews with North Korean Defectors: From Kim Shin-jo to Thae Yong-ho
From the publisher’s website: Originally compiled and written by North Korean defector and author Lim Il, this English-language edition, thoroughly annotated by Dr. Adam Zulawnik, is a fascinating collection of thirty-four interviews with highly prominent North Korean defectors residing in South Korea, ranging from religious figures, to artists, politicians, North Korea experts, and even divers … [Read More]
The Woman From The North: Between Life and Death in North Korea
A very special story of crossing the border of North Korea for just to be alive and survived. Countless surviving and miraculous dramatic moments, in the ordinary North Korean’s life will definitely keep you in suspended and thrilled. Exceptionally heart touching and Eyes-opening. True story of an Extremely strong-willed individual Who was Born at The … [Read More]