Author: Joseph Kim
A few days after I completed this book, the world was rocked with the news that North Korea had detonated a Hydrogen Bomb in a test facility 50 miles from its border with China. It is impossible to comprehend how the country can spend millions of dollars to build a nuclear weapon when people are starving. While Joseph Kim’s book will not shed any light on North Korea’s nuclear capabilities, you will learn a lot about the hunger and starvation that has wracked the entire country. It seemed like things took a really bad turn with the fall of communism in Russia and it is heart wrenching to read about it in this book. Just reading about Joseph and his family’s struggles was painful enough for me. I just can’t fathom what it would be like to live in a country like this. Since the country is really inaccessible to outsiders, read this book to get a glimpse of what the average life of North Korean citizens is like.
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