Thanks for the tip! Ordering it! I've actually visited North Korea 10 years ago as a part of a group tour. Spent 6 days there and saw pretty much the same places, monuments etc as everyone else who visits the country. One thing I'll never forget was seeing thousands (no exaggeration) of people doing hard manual labour when building the then new airport. Hard manual labour we've replaced with machines over here. Needless to say, I've not seen anything like it before nor after. I just messaged the mate I was there with about this book in case he wanted a copy as well. Apparently he's already read it. He has somewhat of a fascination with the country so he's read a lot about it. His exact words about the book: "Very good but also very tragic". At times like this I'm reminded how good life here is. There are problems then there's real problems.