Here it Comes

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Pyongyang via Wikimedia

Air Force One bears down on Singapore at this hour. Time for us to bone up on learning this stuff. Betcha more than he has.

The definitive book to read on the Korean War for my money is  The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War  by David Halberstam. A wicked, evil, brutal and ungodly affair.
North Korea Confidential  by Daniel Tudor and James Pearson, a 2015 book that seeks to cast a rather more realistic light on the reality of North Korean life than the popular media stereotype.
Only Beautiful, Please  a memoir by British diplomat John Evrard, a thirty year, four continent British ambassador to un-Commonwealth lands like North Korea, Belarus and Uruguay.
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea  by Barbara Demick, Beijing bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times.
Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader  by Bradley K. Martin. Portraits of the first two leaders of the only Communist dynasty, Kim Il-Sung and Kim Jong-Il.
French Canadian graphic artist Guy DeLisle’s graphic novel  Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea
And the scariest of all,  The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag  by escapee Chol-hwan Kang.