A review by graventy
The Reluctant Communist: My Desertion, Court-Martial, and Forty-Year Imprisonment in North Korea by Jim Frederick, Charles Robert Jenkins

3.0

Escape from Camp 14 lead me to this book, about a US soldier serving in South Korea along the DMZ, who got drunk one night and defected to North Korea. There he stayed for 40 years, until the Japanese government worked to free his Japanese wife, and, eventually, the rest of his family.

Read Escape from Camp 14. This is more about the drudgery of everyday North Korea, and it's just kind of boring.