North of the DMZ

by Andrei Lankov

Essays about daily life in North Korea: largely based on books written by defectors, and talks to North Koreans outside of the country.

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North of the DMZ

by Andrei Lankov

Other books by Andrei Lankov

The Real North Korea: Life and Politics in the Failed Stalinist Utopia by Andrei Lankov

From Stalin to Kim Il Song by Andrei Lankov

Crisis in North Korea by Andrei Lankov

Our most recommended books

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Middlemarch by George Eliot

On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

Frankenstein (Book) by Mary Shelley

Dracula by Bram Stoker

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The Real North Korea: Life and Politics in the Failed Stalinist Utopia
by Andrei Lankov

From Stalin to Kim Il Song
by Andrei Lankov

Crisis in North Korea
by Andrei Lankov

War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy

Middlemarch
by George Eliot

On Liberty
by John Stuart Mill

Nineteen Eighty-Four
by George Orwell

Frankenstein (Book)
by Mary Shelley

Dracula
by Bram Stoker