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Also, your entire family will be sent to a concentration camp if you escape (or try to). I've always wondered why North Korean athletes don't try to seek asylum during international sporting events, I'm assuming this is why.

Also, obligatory North Korean reading list for those who are interested:

• Escape from Camp 14 (My favourite)
  
  
• This is Paradise! - My North Korean Childhood
  
  
• Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag
  
  
• Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

Here's my suggested reading list:

The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves and Why It Matters

The Reluctant Communist: My Desertion, Court-Martial, and Forty-Year Imprisonment in North Korea

Escaping North Korea

This is Paradise!: My North Korean Childhood

White Tigers: My Secret War in North Korea (Memories of War)

The Tears of my Soul: An autobiography of the bomber of Korean Air Flight 858

The Great North Korean Famine: How and why it happened, and why it will happen again and again.

I love these kinds of things! Unfortunately I don't have many examples because they're hard to find, but I just read a book called This is Paradise! My North Korean Childhood by Hyok Kang, which is a true story about day to day life in North Korea. It was really interesting. It also goes into the guys culture shock when he went to China, and then South Korea.

See: Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader, Nothing to Envy, and This is Paradise.

i'd recommend this book. it is written by someone who left DPRK while still a kid.