sngsweelian 's review for:

A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea by Masaji Ishikawa

5.0

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This is a devastatingly sad but true story of a man, born to a Korean father and a Japanese mother, whose family was conned into migrating to North Korea by the promise of a "paradise on Earth". As we know, the lie they were fed meant the author went through unbelievable hardship. We read about the mass starvation in the news - the author wrote about how they cooked pine tree bark and the terrible consequences of eating it. The Kim regime is evil and inhumane - things might have improved now but it is still unspeakably cruel.