How to Defect
Isabel Hilton: North Korea, 10 June 2010
Nothing to Envy: Real Lives in North Korea
by Barbara Demick.
Granta, 314 pp., £14.99, February 2010,978 1 84708 014 1 Show More
by Barbara Demick.
Granta, 314 pp., £14.99, February 2010,
“... but it might allow us to escape from the unhelpful trope of inexplicable ‘evil’. It is, as Barbara Demick explains, a country that presents a reporter with insuperable difficulties. Even if a journalist can get in, itineraries, activities and contacts are heavily restricted and closely watched. Much of the information we get comes from compromised ... ”
