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Indeed, although it's not an easy read, and it takes time for the horror of spending one's entire life, birth to death, in a concentration camp, starving and being tortured to really sink in.

It is amazing account from someone who was born inside of a NK prison camp, escaping the camp, then NK, and finally making his way to California. I totally recommend it. I couldn't stop reading it once I picked it up.

A more depressing read is "The Story of Oh" [0] - a South Korean who chose to move with his family to North Korea ... then, upon realizing how the facts on the ground differed from the fiction he'd been taught about the place, managed to escape. Without his family, mind you. His wife demanded he escape, the better to prevent others from following in his footsteps.

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[0] http://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2012/07/16/the-story-of-...