Recently I've been interested to know a little more about the North Korea. My interest began when I made an interchange in Canada last september. Because there I knew some South Koreans and they told me about the differences between two nations. What a differences! I always heard about the dictator Kim Jong-Un, his madness, and other things, such as North-Koreans can't to travel,etc. However what I heard was only things announced by press. I never read someting deeper; so, I decided to read about this. The first book I read was "In order to live" by Yeonmi Park and after "Nothing to Envy" by Barbara Demick. The first book was written by a North Korean girl and the second one by an American journalist. The two books are intense, but the first is more intense than the second because its story is told by a child that lived in a opression environment. She was a child when her have to face the famine, the fear, the sexual violence just in order to live. When she ran away from North Korea via Chinese border, she didn't search freedom (because she even knew what freedom was); but what she searched was food. She wanted just could eat.
The second book describes the history of some North Koreans deserters. At this book I read about innocent love between two youngs in which their actions more daring was touching on their hands each other. I also read about a woman doctor who was fairly obedient to "regime" but after she disappointed a lot with his govern. There are many stories in this second book of ordinary people. You cry, you get angry, your mouth get dry, your stomach hurts, but in the end it's worth to know what happens there.