korea (north)

Explores daily life in North Korea, focusing on family, school, work, social, and political life. Includes color photographs, facts, quotes, sidebars, and resources for further information.

Photographs and text explore the history, geography, culture, government, economy, daily life, and more of North Korea.

In South Korea, Yoori and her Appa, who grew up in North Korea, work with other villagers to send special balloons to carry rice over the border into North Korea, where people are starving.

Provides information about the causes, conduct, and results of the Korean War, a conflict fought between communist North Korea, with the approval of the Soviet Union and China, and South Korea, supported by the United States.

Corporal Tony Donovan and his Army Corps of Engineer companions must rebuild one of the jeeps they were carrying when their plane crashes behind enemy lines and escape before North Korea attacks.

Twelve-year-old Mia is on a five-day tour of North Korea with her older brother, Simon, and their father, Mark, a food aid worker, but she is scared because her father keeps sneaking off at night, and terrified that her brother's sullen, rebellious behavior (which has absolutely nothing to do with the Koreans) is going to get them in trouble--and things get much worse when she is pulled into a deadly political game that seeks to expose North Korean atrocities, and her father is arrested.

A sister and brother go on the run with explosive forbidden photographs in this gripping and timely survival adventure.

"Half-Korean, half-Japanese, Masaji Ishikawa has spent his whole life feeling like a man without a country. This feeling only deepened when his family moved from Japan to North Korea when Ishikawa was just thirteen years old, and unwittingly became members of the lowest social caste. His father, himself a Korean national, was lured to the new Communist country by promises of abundant work, education for his children, and a higher station in society. But the reality of their new life was far from utopian"--Jacket flap.

"The memoir of a boy named Sungju who grew up in North Korea and, at the age of twelve, was forced to live on the streets and fend for himself after his parents disappeared. Finally, after years of being homeless and living with a gang, Sungju is reunited with his maternal grandparents and, eventually, his father"--Provided by publisher.

Presents a collection of essays selected from the New York Times that looks at North Korean leaders Kim Il-Sung, Kim Jong-Il and Kim Jong-Un.