[mapleoin]

I posted this a few days ago but didn't get any attention:

A Year in Pyongyang: The fascinating account of a British guy who spent a year in North Korea working as a literary reviser for their totalitarian government http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1178719

I've started reading the book since then and it really paints a full and seemingly realistic picture of N Korea.

[jbm]

I read that book a long time ago.

I always found it interesting how he was constantly in fear of getting ripped off by the government, and moreover, how the North Korean people he worked with never really talked to him about how they felt.

I found the story about the girl who was impregnated by an African student and forced to have an abortion to be incredibly fascinating.

[IsaacL]

Great link (though it should come with a procrastination warning...) I've just spent over an hour browsing through it. It's definitely a different perspective.