Brian lamb interviewed the author yesterday on Book TV. Absolutely fascinating. I don’t think I’m giving anything away here but .... a man who had been born inside a N. Korean concentration camp with no hope of EVER leaving and not knowing there was even a world outside until he met another inmate who told him about Seoul, America, Europe, etc. But having no reference to what that meant was moved to escape by the descriptions of Food: Chicken, pork, beef could be had easily in China instead of the cabbage soup with corn and occasional field mouse or rat he had always had. That is what moved him to risk his life.
There is more — much more.
While the unimprisoned citizens of NK are probably aware of the rest of the world, they certainly have no idea of what actually lies out here. State run TV is all they see and hear.