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Nothing to Envy

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What’s it about?

Through the lives of six ordinary North Koreans, this book reveals the human cost of totalitarianism, from the famine of the 1990s to the psychological grip of a regime that controlled every thought.

You’ll learn

  • How propaganda shapes belief
  • The famine's human toll
  • Survival under total control
  • The cost of escaping