Quote Originally Posted by Subotan View Post
One book which I really really recommend is Famine in North Korea by Haggard and Nolan. It's a analysis of the famine from an economist's perspective, and it's much less dry than you might imagine. Utterly engrossing and tragic, as both show that the famine was something completely avoidable, and entirely the fault of the regime, as opposed to floods and Yankee Imperialists and such.
I'll have to check this out! Thanks! National Geographic did a documentary following an eye doctor who went to North Korea to do cataract operations. Parts of it were very unsettling. Upon having their bandages removed, every person who had the operation immediately ran to the front of the room and tearfully thanked a photo of Kim Jong-Il for their newly restored eyesight. Another good film is Crossing the Line, about an American who defected to North Korea. He comes across as completely unsympathetic but it's still very interesting.