In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom by Yeonmi Park

BATB score: 8/10 🔥

The Kim's regime in North Korea is a perfectly executed marketing propaganda yet one that is difficult to keep when the new generations start seeing otherwise; likeas any monarchy's blinded loyalty and religious miracle tell-tales, nothing can withstand time.

Best to: North Korea's anecdotes and defector's escape stories continues to amaze me; it has been 30+ years of starvation, I really want to know how this would end. The answer can only be an internal-national revolution, but we need a majority consensus. Thus we have to wait for Gen X to pass #RIP

Best for: long live the resistance |||

Best as: yet, the best North Korea book would have to be "Nothing to Envy" by Barbara Demick

Best quotes: "we couldn’t remember a time when the state provided for everyone’s needs. We didn’t have the same blind loyalty to the regime that was felt by our parents’ generation.”

"But I still did not know how to cry for a stranger's suffering. As far as I know, it was impossible, because no stranger had ever cried for me."

"All of us were trying to act like normal people, while inside the anguish of our past and the uncertainty of our future was eating us alive."