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Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea Barbara Demick
Publisher: Spiegel & Grau

North Korea is a country filled with secrets. It is not easy for somebody who's escaped a totalitarian country to live in the free world. The Hidden People of North Korea Everyday Life in the Hermit. North Korea (officially known as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea) is at a turning in its history. Policy Toward North Korea: Stalemate or Checkmate? The book is called Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea, written by Barbara Demick, a former correspondent for the Los Angeles Times. €�North Korean defectors often find it hard to settle down. Barbara Demick, currently the Beijing bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times, spent five years as Seoul's bureau chief where she had unprecedented access to North Koreans. Nothing to Envy has been hailed as one of the best books on 'ordinary' life within country. I came across this book — Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick — in a mention from Seraphic Secret. I have been fortunate to have traveled to South Korea twice.