Escape from North Korea: The Untold Story of Asia’s Underground Railroad by Melanie Kirkpatrick

For a stateconsidered a charter member of the so-called “Axis of Evil”, North Korea never seems to remain the center of global attention for long. It is one of the places that the average person (or indeed, almost anyone) really knowsnothing about: we don’t know how its government makes decisions, we don’t know the motivations of its leaders or, perhaps most importantly, how its people really live.