A River in Darkness

A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea by Masaji Ishikawa

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


Just finished this last night. This is quite a read. This Japanese man was taken with his family to live in North Korea in the '60s as part of a "repatriation." North Korea, according to this memoir, is every bit as bad as we think. His harrowing ordeal included starvation and excessive military presence. It is a place where people eat dogs.
Ultimately, the man escapes. How he manages it is quite a tale.



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