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Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

Barbara Demick

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Jan 12, 2019 Amy Ellis rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

This exposé, featuring the stories of 8 defectors from North Korea, completely blew my mind. Their stories of living through famine, loss, Communism, and escape are heartbreaking. I kept thinking that this must have all happened in the 60s, but this is mid-90s through today. I love that South Korea is so helpful to defectors and that more people escape each year. It is just crazy to me that dictatorships still exist.

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